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THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC

THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being University of Notre Dame du Lac ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$64k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$141k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What The Dennis J Smith Legacy Foundation Inc does

Programs

  1. Donation paid to bishop mcnamara high school

    $26,600 spent

  2. Donation paid to kcc

    $2,000 spent

  3. Donation paid to les turner als foundation

    $2,000 spent

  4. Donation paid to department of health and fitness nfp

    $1,000 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($192k) Expenses 100 ($198k) Net assets 100 ($366k)2018 Revenue 92 ($177k) Expenses 118 ($235k) Net assets 84 ($309k)2019 Revenue 80 ($154k) Expenses 97 ($191k) Net assets 74 ($271k)2020 Revenue 40 ($76k) Expenses 62 ($123k) Net assets 61 ($224k)2021 Revenue 71 ($136k) Expenses 82 ($162k) Net assets 54 ($197k)2022 Revenue 63 ($121k) Expenses 90 ($179k) Net assets 38 ($140k)2023 Revenue 66 ($126k) Expenses 71 ($142k) Net assets 34 ($124k)2024 Revenue 102 ($195k) Expenses 92 ($183k) Net assets 37 ($137k)2025 Revenue 33 ($64k) Expenses 30 ($60k) Net assets 38 ($141k)
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Revenue (33)Expenses (30)Net assets (38)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $366k to $309k (−16%).

$366k
$309k
$271k
$224k
$197k
$140k
$124k
$137k
$141k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed677777777
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
'25*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC.

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

92% of THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 67% between 2017 and 2025.

Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation66%Drake Dekeyrel Memorial Foundation65%Dean Anthony Katsaros Foundation65%Don'T Be Next Foundation64%Decatur Public Schools Foundation63%North Mac Public Schools Foundation63%Dundee Crown Athletic Booster Club63%Illinois Masonic Foundation for the Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Children63%

Nationally

Smith Family Charitable Foundation72%John I Smith Charities Inc71%David E Smith Family Foundation Inc70%David Bruce Smith Foundation Inc70%Smith Family Foundation69%Smith Family Foundation Fred M Smith Co-Trustee69%Derrick Thomas Neil Smith Third And69%Hunter L Mason Foundation68%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC?
THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being University of Notre Dame du Lac ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,000 in grants to THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC?
University of Notre Dame du Lac is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE DENNIS J SMITH LEGACY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing