· Private foundation
Smith Foundation - Trustee
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k23 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $90,277 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $90,277 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $90,277 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KY | $63,194 |
| REDWOOD SCHOOL & REHABILITATION | $45,139 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES OF N KY | $45,139 |
| BILLY GRAHAM MINISTRIES | $45,139 |
| CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES | $45,139 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $36,111 |
| ST ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTER INC | $27,083 |
| ST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE | $18,055 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $18,055 |
| RICHWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,055 |
| MASONIC HOME | $18,055 |
| RYLE HIGH SCHOOL | $18,055 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of Smith Foundation - Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $520k · revenue +30%
- RSRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +62%
- SESt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $217k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRYone grant, 2020 · $85k
- CHChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +113%
- SEST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $43k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Methodist health provides quality healthcare services with a compassionate and caring spirit to persons, families and communities of the tri-state. at methodist health, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. beverwyck is a member of st. peter's health partners and trinity…
To help make our communities healthier through a focus on whole person health.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
See Disclosure Above.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER LIONS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
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: The Butler Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Duke Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith Foundation - Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Foundation - Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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