· Private foundation
The Dennis J Smith Legacy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $26,600 |
| KCC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LES TURNER ALS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CAROLL UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & FITNESS NFP | $1,000 |
| KCC | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $500 |
| CHOICE YOUTH OUTREACH | $450 |
| UNITED WAY OF KANKAKEE | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| YOUTH OF CHRIST | $250 |
| PLEASANT GROVE CHURCH | $200 |
| ST PAT'S CHURCH | $200 |
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 (FY24–24, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISTILL I RISE7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +482% · 37% of their budget
- CUCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +7%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEE2× · 2021–2022 · $750 · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MUMarquette Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +46%
- TBTYLER BAILEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Rooted in a tradition of Christian service, Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville expands access to high quality healthcare delivered with a compassionate and nurturing spirit to all.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
To continuously improve the quality of health in the communities we serve.
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 126 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.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dennis J Smith Legacy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dennis J Smith Legacy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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