Ohio · Private foundation
The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2024
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 75 to 82
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $159M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 | 75 | $9.3M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $9.7M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $6.3M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $7.7M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $6.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $9,210,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $4,099,833 | 5 | 2% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $3,400,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc | $2,685,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $2,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc | $940,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $837,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $475,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Downtown Cleveland Alliance | $445,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith 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 George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Nord Family Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Treu Mart Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation with peer funders
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About The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation
- How much does The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation give?
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $9,281,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 82 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Health (12%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cleveland Museum of Art ($9.2M), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($4.1M), The Musical Arts Association ($3.4M).
- Does The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation.
- Where is The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation based?
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation is based in OH.
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