· Private foundation
The Smith Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LDS PHILANTHROPIES | $800,000 |
| KAHN ACADEMY | $500,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO | $450,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $370,000 |
| FLORENCE IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT | $335,000 |
| RAICES | $260,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $165,000 |
| FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTHSOBRATO CENTER FOR NONPROFITS | $125,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $120,000 |
| ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $100,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $100,000 |
| THE HUMBLE VILLAGE | $100,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2026, 30 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC10× · 2017–2026 · $5.0M · revenue +123%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC10× · 2017–2026 · $1.4M · revenue +81%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION10× · 2017–2026 · $875k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- MFMENON FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k
- HFHope For The Warriorsone grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
- OSOperation Second Chance Incone grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
How this is measured
110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 156 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 KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
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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 Smith Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smith Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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