Alabama · Private foundation
The Sybil Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $467k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $33,169
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Sybil Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 8 | $467k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $466k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $360k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $324k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $362k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $227k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dumas Wesley Community Center | $2,705,000 | 7 | 41% |
| Northwest Florida Ballet Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Monroe County Heritage Museum | $126,669 | 4 | 23% |
| Alabama Forest Land Trust Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Society of 1868 Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile Museum of Art Inc | $22,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Build A Better Community | $15,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Providence Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Feeding the Gulf Coast | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coastal Alabama Partnership | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dumas Wesley Community Center | $2,705,000 | 7 | 41% |
| Northwest Florida Ballet Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Monroe County Heritage Museum | $126,669 | 4 | 23% |
| Alabama Forest Land Trust Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Society of 1868 Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile Museum of Art Inc | $22,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Build A Better Community | $15,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Providence Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Feeding the Gulf Coast | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coastal Alabama Partnership | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mobile Opera Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Mobile Area Interfaith Conference | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Main Street Mobile Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Adoption Rocks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alabama Audubon | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mobile Arts Council Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mobile International Festival Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Clarke County Kingdom Builders Inc | $2,900 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mobile Symphonic Pops Band Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Literacy Coalition of South Alabama Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($379k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sybil Smith Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mary J Larkins Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Sybil Smith Foundation
- How much does The Sybil Smith Foundation give?
- The Sybil Smith Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $466,669 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Sybil Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (82%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (3%).
- Who are The Sybil Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Dumas Wesley Community Center ($2.7M), Northwest Florida Ballet Inc ($200k), Monroe County Heritage Museum ($127k).
- Does The Sybil Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sybil Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sybil Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee, Hearin - Chandler Foundation.
- Where is The Sybil Smith Foundation based?
- The Sybil Smith Foundation is based in AL.
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