Illinois · Private foundation
Smithburg Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $253k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Smithburg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $238k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $218k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $253k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $245k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $221k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $139k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $218k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $263k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company | $205,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $182,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Aspen Art Museum | $110,875 | 8 | 0% |
| Restoration Ministries Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $79,500 | 8 | n/a |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $67,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $62,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill | $38,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($403k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smithburg Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Smithburg Family Foundation
- How much does Smithburg Family Foundation give?
- Smithburg Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $253,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Smithburg Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (19%), Education (12%).
- Who are Smithburg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Steppenwolf Theatre Company ($205k), Chicago Horticultural Society ($183k), Big Shoulders Fund ($130k).
- Does Smithburg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smithburg 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 Smithburg Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Smithburg Family Foundation based?
- Smithburg Family Foundation is based in IL.
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