· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB | $8,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD & AGRICULTURE | $3,600 |
| PACE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| NYU LANGONE HEALTH | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HUDSON VALLEY | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE OF NY | $1,950 |
| OMEGA INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $764 |
| FREE SYNAGOGUE OF WESTCHESTER | $300 |
| POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $300 |
| FAITHFUL HEARTS SOCIETY | $250 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $250 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $210 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC8× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +68%
- BBBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO6× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +17%
- PUPACE UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TWTHE WOMENS BOARD UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOone grant, 2019 · $3k
- TDTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +254%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maineone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +2%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
How this is measured
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 135 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WATER CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frederick & Greta Smiley Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sponsors Inc: 8% of income from government
- Kindersmile Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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