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Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$180k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$10k50%
FY202411$12k0%
FY202311$12k18%
FY202211$4k73%
FY20205$13k40%
FY20191$100100%
FY201810$17k0%
FY201713$29kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$47kSocial Science$30kArts & Culture$18kHealth$4kCrime & Legal$3kYouth Development$1kPhilanthropy$1kEnvironment$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Brookings Institution: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $12,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMorristown-Beard School: $2,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $2,205 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChess Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBronx Community College Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lower East Side Girls Club of New York Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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About Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation

How much does Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation give?
Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $17,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Social Science (27%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Brookings Institution ($30k), Fordham University ($18k), Museum of Modern Art ($12k).
Does Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation based?
Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundation is based in NY.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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