· Private foundation
The Smith 5 Private Foundation Nfp
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAWS | $12,437 |
| MY JOYFUL HEART | $10,965 |
| SWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION | $4,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF SYLVANIA | $4,000 |
| NEVER ALONE FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| JOLIET AREA COMMUNITY HOSPICE | $4,000 |
| TEAM MAKE A DIFFERENCE | $3,500 |
| OLLIE'S PLACE NYC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL GEORGIA | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 96% 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
Backed again, and grew
- MJMY JOYFUL HEART NFP8× · 2018–2025 · $74k · revenue +72%
- THTHE HOME 2 HOME PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +105%
- SOSWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION7× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MSMorning Start Missionone grant, 2019 · $6k
- FLFIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -37%
- TSTommy Schuman Foundationone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
Care to terminal patients/families
Committed to improving the quality of life for chicago's low-income elderly, housing opportunities and maintenance for the elderly (h.o.m.e.) helps seniors remain independent and part of their community by offering opportunities for…
Almost home kids provides a bridge from hospital to home through an innovative community-based care system for children with medical complexities. almost home kids responds to the needs of families, trains caregivers, offers respite care,…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Short-term shelter, health and social services for homeless adults who are recovering from illness and injury.
To find a cure for als, provide persons living with als and families support and advocate on behalf of the als community
Providing wheelchairs to individuals worldwide
Offer crisis intervention, supportive counseling and comprehensive referral services to surviving family members throughout chicago following homicide; provide training in sensitive and effective communication with and treatment of…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 32 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.
- Who funds MY JOYFUL HEART NFP ↗
- Who funds THE HOME 2 HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION ↗
- Who funds Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAM MAKE A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Humane Society of Stillwater Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION OF NEW LENOX TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET MAGNIFICAT INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Smith 5 Private Foundation Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smith 5 Private Foundation Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
How this is measured
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