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David Bruce Smith Family Foundation at a glance

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David Bruce Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$85kArts & Culture$64kPhilanthropy$18kReligion$13kHealth$13kHuman Services$5kInternational$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVID BRUCE SMITH FOUNDATION INC$10,881
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOUSE FOUNDATION$7,500
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$2,500
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC BEIT HALOCHEM$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOUSE FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%American Friends of Hebrew University: $12k → 17%ARENA STAGE: $34k → 14%AFNIPI: $10k → 14%DAVID BRUCE SMITH FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 7%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: $6k → 22%NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%CHARLES S SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $18k → 8%TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL: $13k → 10%Joe's Movement Emporium: $500 → 11%JOHN HOPKINS: $13k → 19%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC BEIT HALOCHEM: $1k → 17%KID POWER INC: $1k → 14%NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GW: $5k → 8%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR PERMORMING ARTS: $16k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 8%Supreme Court Historical Society: $150 → 14%CHARLES S SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%EDLAVITCH DCJCC: $5k → 14%Jewish Federation of Greater Washington: $2k → 8%Jewish Women International: $1k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
5
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
University of Judaism Foundation
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8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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12
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is David Bruce Smith Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherNAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATIONCHARLES S SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherCHARLES S SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOLJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR PERMORMING ARTS: $16,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR PERMORMING ARTSTEMPLE B NAI ISRAEL: $12,500 · OtherTEMPLE B NAI ISRAELJOHN HOPKINS: $12,500 · OtherJOHN HOPKINSDAVID BRUCE SMITH FOUNDATION INC: $10,881 · OtherDAVID BRUCE SMITH FOUNDATION INCAFNIPI: $10,000 · OtherAFNIPIBENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOUSE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5,500 · OtherEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $5,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GW: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $1,650 · OtherWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA S…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $1,000 · InternationalThe George Washington University: $10,000 · EducationCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,500 · EducationTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyKID POWER INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$146,531Arts & Culture$34,500International$13,000Education$12,500Philanthropy$2,000Youth Development$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID BRUCE SMITH FOUNDATION INC: $10,881 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKID POWER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Women International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD ARTS FOCUS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Morris and Gwendo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David Bruce Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Bruce Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David Bruce Smith Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David Bruce Smith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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