Ohio · Private foundation
The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation
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.
- $741k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,334
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 48
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $741k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $542k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $551k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $550k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $391k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $403k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $447k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique | $172,000 | 7 | 2% |
| John Carroll University | $134,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Notre Dame College | $127,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $127,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hiram College | $119,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Ursuline College | $96,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Josephs Home | $67,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Solon Historical Society | $57,500 | 7 | 74% |
| Cornerstone of Hope Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Regina Health Center | $29,100 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Kulas Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Laub Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return
How this is measured
Compare The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation give?
- The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $741,074 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Religion (6%), Employment (5%).
- Who are The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique ($172k), John Carroll University ($134k), Notre Dame College ($128k).
- Does The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Smiley Family Charitable 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 The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Swagelok Foundation, Kulas Foundation.
- Where is The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation based?
- The Smiley Family Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
Play a game based on Smiley Family’s filings →