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Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,050
Organizations funded a year
9 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$68k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$34k64%
FY20249$18k44%
FY202315$21k40%
FY202213$26k54%
FY202115$29k53%
FY202016$35k38%
FY201932$40k38%
FY201830$27k43%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$129kArts & Culture$35kHuman Services$23kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$12kReligion$11kPhilanthropy$6kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WI
MI
NY
OR
NE
MO
VA
MD
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Smith Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc$26,55020%
Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc$11,00030%
The Immokalee Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc$8,2003n/a
The Nations Association Charities Inc$7,40041%
Floridians for Democracy$7,1002n/a
Hodges University Inc$6,00010%
Players Circle Art Center Inc$4,20050%
The Freedom & Virtue Institute Inc$2,60040%
Alvin a Dubin Alzheimer's Resource Center Inc$2,55020%
Integrity Church Inc$2,5001n/a
South Lee Edc Inc$2,250212%
Gulf Coast Humane Society Inc$2,00020%
Lee County Bar Association Inc$1,93020%
Christys Cause Inc$1,50021%
Women Giving Back Inc$1,50010%
Folds of Honor Foundation$1,46030%
Child Care of Sw Florida Inc$1,20020%
Strength N Honor Charities Inc$1,0503n/a
Community Cooperative Inc$1,00030%
Pine Manor Improvement Association Inc$1,00012%
Avow Inc$1,0001n/a
New Life Center$1,0001n/a
New Horizons of Southwest Florida Inc$1,00010%
Pickup the Ball Inc$8501n/a
YMCA of Southwest Florida Inc$64010%
Pro Publica Inc$50010%
Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated$50010%
Charity for Change Inc$50010%
Elderheart Inc$40010%
Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs Inc$40010%
Estero Historical Society Inc$2501n/a
Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc$25010%
Foundation for Government Accountability Inc$22510%
Litworld International Inc$10010%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$1001n/a
Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce Inc$6010%
Estero Chamber of Commerce$2010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smith Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlorida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc: $26,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInvestigative Reporters & Editors Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Immokalee Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nations Association Charities Inc: $7,400 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHodges University Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlayers Circle Art Center Inc: $4,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Freedom & Virtue Institute Inc: $2,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAlvin a Dubin Alzheimer's Resource Center Inc: $2,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Lee Edc Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 12% of budgetGulf Coast Humane Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLee County Bar Association Inc: $1,930 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChristys Cause Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWomen Giving Back Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $1,460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChild Care of Sw Florida Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Cooperative Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPine Manor Improvement Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNew Horizons of Southwest Florida Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Southwest Florida Inc: $640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sports Foundation Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity for Change Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElderheart Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for the Arts of Bonita Springs Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Government Accountability Inc: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLitworld International Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Naples Chamber of Commerce Inc: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEstero Chamber of Commerce: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Collier Community Foundation IncFL21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · West Bay Community Charitable Foundation · The League Club Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Smith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Smith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Smith Family Foundation

How much does Smith Family Foundation give?
Smith Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $34,135 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Smith Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc ($27k), Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc ($11k), The Immokalee Foundation Inc ($10k).
Does Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Smith Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, The United Way of Lee County Inc, Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Smith Family Foundation based?
Smith Family Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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