Illinois · Private foundation
The Smart Family Fund
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 36
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Smart Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 30 | $1.5M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.5M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $1.7M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Inc | $925,000 | 6 | 5% |
| VotingWorks | $835,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Recidiviz Inc | $750,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Let's Get Ready Inc | $480,000 | 6 | 3% |
| St John's College | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Horizons Greater Washington Inc | $430,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Kickstart International Inc | $319,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Blair House Foundation | $300,000 | 6 | 18% |
| The News Literacy Project Inc | $275,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Philadelphia Children's Alliance | $225,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($360k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Smart Family Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Hearst Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Smart Family Fund
- How much does The Smart Family Fund give?
- The Smart Family Fund reported 32 grants totaling $1,510,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 36 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Smart Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Public Benefit (13%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are The Smart Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Inc ($925k), VotingWorks ($835k), Recidiviz Inc ($750k).
- Does The Smart Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Smart Family Fund 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 The Smart Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Smart Family Fund based?
- The Smart Family Fund is based in IL.
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