Smart Family Foundation Of Illinois
EIN 81-2433446 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 173 grants · $11.6m
Who it funds most
33 of its 58 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Smart Family Foundation Of Illinois's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202541759349100209
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202541759349100209 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202442119349100109 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202341589349100209 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202201929349101010 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202122089349101002 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202002309349100035 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201943019349100404 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Smart Family Foundation Of Illinois made 325 grants across 2018–2024, totalling $21.3m as filed.
- Grants
- 325
- Total, as filed
- $21.3m
- Years
- 2018–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| THE UNIVERISTY OF CHICAGO | 4 | $3.2m |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | 6 | $1.9m |
| FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL | 6 | $1.9m |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST | 3 | $1.9m |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | 5 | $1.1m |
| KENYON COLLEGE | 6 | $1.0m |
| STEPPENWOLF THEATRE CO | 6 | $934.3k |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | 4 | $800.0k |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | 4 | $500.0k |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | 4 | $500.0k |
| GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL | 5 | $435.0k |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | 4 | $400.0k |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | 4 | $325.0k |
| WTTW | 5 | $325.0k |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | 6 | $320.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 38 | $2.8m |
| 2020 | 46 | $3.2m |
| 2021 | 60 | $3.0m |
| 2022 | 54 | $4.2m |
| 2023 | 59 | $4.1m |
| 2024 | 68 | $4.0m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-812433446. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified