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THE HORACE SMITH FUND

THE HORACE SMITH FUND (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being PEOPLESBANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$631k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$6.9M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Horace Smith Fund does

Programs

  1. Scholarships were awarded to eligible students for the school year beginning september 2025: 75 scholarships of 3,000 each and 12 scholarships of 1,500: scholarships awarded - 244,545 other disbursements for charitable purposes - 132,063

    $376,608 spent
  2. Fellowships awarded to eligible students. For the school year beginning september 2025, 6 fellowships of 7,500, 1 at 5,000 and 5 at various amounts each were awarded. Twelve recipients attended college for the whole year. Fellowships awarded - 66,310 other disbursements for charitable purposes - 25,947

    $92,257 spent

The 2 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($195k) Expenses 100 ($454k) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 350 ($685k) Expenses 110 ($498k) Net assets 103 ($6.2M)2019 Revenue 135 ($263k) Expenses 110 ($501k) Net assets 99 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 318 ($621k) Expenses 113 ($515k) Net assets 101 ($6.1M)2021 Revenue 290 ($566k) Expenses 115 ($521k) Net assets 102 ($6.2M)2022 Revenue 1083 ($2.1M) Expenses 122 ($553k) Net assets 127 ($7.7M)2023 Revenue -113 ($-220767) Expenses 118 ($535k) Net assets 115 ($7.0M)2024 Revenue 200 ($391k) Expenses 118 ($535k) Net assets 113 ($6.8M)2025 Revenue 323 ($631k) Expenses 120 ($546k) Net assets 114 ($6.9M)
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Revenue (323)Expenses (120)Net assets (114)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.2M to $7.7M (+26%).

$6.1M
$6.2M
$6.0M
$6.1M
$6.2M
$7.7M
$7.0M
$6.8M
$6.9M
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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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Listed11109997666
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·11002100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE HORACE SMITH FUND’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.

Where its funders are

100% of THE HORACE SMITH FUND's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like THE HORACE SMITH FUND

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE HORACE SMITH FUND?
THE HORACE SMITH FUND (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being PEOPLESBANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE HORACE SMITH FUND have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to THE HORACE SMITH FUND.
Who is the largest funder of THE HORACE SMITH FUND?
PEOPLESBANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE HORACE SMITH FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 1 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