· Private foundation
George D Smith Fund Inc
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
- $250k+9 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $700,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $550,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $450,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $450,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $400,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $300,000 |
| GBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $75,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of its 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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +40%- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +25%
WGBH Educational Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +9%
Funded once
PBS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2025 · $250k · revenue 0%
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To serve audiences as a distinctive content source for information, insights and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
To lead changes that expand public media as a trusted source of knowledge, information, and inspiration for all.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George D Smith Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George D Smith Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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