North Carolina · Private foundation
Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $270k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2026
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 29% of the organizations Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 24 | $220k | 29% |
| FY2025 | 14 | $109k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $102k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $110k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $282k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $262k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $277k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $221k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Educational Foundation Inc | $247,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Old North State Council Inc | $72,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Alamance Community College Foundation | $62,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Virginia Episcopal School | $55,000 | 8 | n/a |
| J Harold Smith Carolina Scholars | $55,000 | 5 | 21% |
| United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lambs Chapel Inc | $43,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $40,176 | 2 | 0% |
| The Methodist Home for Children Inc | $34,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Swingpals Inc | $30,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($507k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Smith Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ernest a Koury Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Allendale Fund · Vicky and Sam Hunt Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Hagan Family Fund · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Smith Family Foundation
- How much does Smith Family Foundation give?
- Smith Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Smith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (36%), Youth Development (17%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: The Educational Foundation Inc ($248k), Old North State Council Inc ($73k), Alamance Community College Foundation ($63k).
- Does Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 29% 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 Duke Energy Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Smith Family Foundation based?
- Smith Family Foundation is based in NC.
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