Ohio · Private foundation
Willard E Smucker 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 60
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $609k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Willard E Smucker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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 | 57 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $1.3M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $1,580,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Licking & Perry Counties Inc | $307,272 | 6 | 11% |
| Orrville United Way Inc | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Licking Memorial Hospital | $191,772 | 6 | 0% |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $180,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Drury University | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chautauqua Institution | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park | $140,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Food for Lane County | $133,569 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willard E Smucker Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Wayne County Community Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · R & M Clark Family Foundation · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · The Isabel Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Tenacre Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · Gar Foundation
How this is measured
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About Willard E Smucker Foundation
- How much does Willard E Smucker Foundation give?
- Willard E Smucker Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $1,193,762 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 60 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Willard E Smucker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Willard E Smucker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of America ($1.6M), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Licking & Perry Counties Inc ($307k), Orrville United Way Inc ($300k).
- Does Willard E Smucker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Willard E Smucker 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 Willard E Smucker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wayne County Community Foundation, Akron Community Foundation, R & M Clark Family Foundation.
- Where is Willard E Smucker Foundation based?
- Willard E Smucker Foundation is based in OH.
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