New York · Private foundation
Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $764
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $800k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 18 | $30k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $44k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $41k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $53k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $46k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $58k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $79k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $78k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $82,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pace University | $39,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Nyu Langone Health System | $20,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Police Athletic League Inc | $8,110 | 8 | 0% |
| Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc | $5,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Prairie Foundation | $3,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Kindersmile Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable 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.
About Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation
- How much does Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation give?
- Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $30,124 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Youth Development (23%), Health (16%).
- Who are Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Manhattan Theatre Club Inc ($82k), Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago ($62k), Pace University ($40k).
- Does Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation based?
- Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
Play a game based on Frederick & Greta Smiley’s filings →