Florida · Private foundation
Edward W Smith Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Edward W Smith Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 16 | $130k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $130k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $110k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $110k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $110k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $120k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Community Outreach Inc | $87,000 | 5 | 3% |
| 4kids of South Florida Inc | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Harvest Aviation Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Hope South Florida Inc | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Macular Degeneration Association | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grace Way Village Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Community Outreach Inc | $87,000 | 5 | 3% |
| 4kids of South Florida Inc | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Harvest Aviation Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Hope South Florida Inc | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Macular Degeneration Association | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grace Way Village Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mustard Seed Ministries Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Impact Melanoma Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($561k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward W Smith Jr 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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Edward W Smith Jr Foundation
- How much does Edward W Smith Jr Foundation give?
- Edward W Smith Jr Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $130,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Edward W Smith Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Health (20%), Religion (6%).
- Who are Edward W Smith Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gateway Community Outreach Inc ($87k), 4kids of South Florida Inc ($80k), Harvest Aviation Inc ($40k).
- Does Edward W Smith Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward W Smith Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edward W Smith Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Edward W Smith Jr Foundation based?
- Edward W Smith Jr Foundation is based in FL.
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