Smalley Foundation Incorporated
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting educational initiatives, primarily through scholarship programs. Its mission focuses on enhancing access to higher education by providing financial assistance to students attending various universities and colleges. The foundation emphasizes its commitment to educational equity and the promotion of academic achievement. It serves a diverse range of recipients, including individual students and educational institutions. The foundation's funding activities indicate a strong focus on scholarship support, particularly for students in need, reflecting its values of education and community development.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
Colleges, universities, or scholarship-administering organizations (including established scholarship funds) that can receive restricted scholarship awards or endowment gifts.
Good Fit
- • Operates a formal scholarship program or scholarship-administering office.
- • Is a higher-education institution or charitable scholarship fund with capacity to accept designated awards or endowments.
- • Located in or serving the Northeast (notably New York or Massachusetts) or has demonstrable ties to the foundation’s network.
- • Has existing relationships with college advancement offices or prior grantees that could lead to being preselected.
Geography
Grants are spread across 13 states, so the footprint is multi-state, but giving is regionally concentrated with roughly 42% of dollars directed to the foundation’s home-state region.
Recipient Variety
The latest year shows 115 distinct recipients and 121 grants, with a very large number of new recipients (107), and most awards labeled as scholarships rather than to a tiny closed circle.
New Applicants
Behavioral evidence shows high turnover into the portfolio (107 new recipients in the latest year, a 93% new-recipient rate), which strongly suggests unfamiliar applicants can enter the grant stream even though the filings also note awards are by preselection and no public application portal is visible.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
