Texas · Private foundation
Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $680k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $680k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $611k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $717k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $499k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.3M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $1.1M | 30% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $1.1M | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $2,450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The United Way Inc | $1,000,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Texas Health Resources | $900,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center | $350,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Crystal Charity Ball | $189,465 | 6 | 1% |
| Parkland Foundation | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children | $140,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shared Christian Ministries | $105,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Buckner Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $2,450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The United Way Inc | $1,000,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Texas Health Resources | $900,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center | $350,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Crystal Charity Ball | $189,465 | 6 | 1% |
| Parkland Foundation | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children | $140,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shared Christian Ministries | $105,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Buckner Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope Farm Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Educational First Steps | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Scholarshot | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Carrell Clinic Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Uplift Education | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yellow Rose Gala Foundation | $45,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Sweetheart Ball Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Demand Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Junior League of Dallas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chase's Place Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Texas | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metrocrest Services | $450 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation
- How much does Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation give?
- Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $679,898 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (31%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Methodist University ($2.5M), The United Way Inc ($1.0M), Texas Health Resources ($900k).
- Does Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation based?
- Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation is based in TX.
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