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Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$283k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$158,262
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$114k
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 Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving7$271k0%
FY20248$294k25%
FY20237$110k43%
FY20226$781k50%
FY20212$156k0%
FY20203$8k33%
FY20191$150k0%
FY20184$294k75%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MEducation$557kReligion$146kPhilanthropy$84kArts & Culture$56kHuman Services$9kPublic Benefit$6kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yale University$500,1002n/a
Central Synagogue$216,1094n/a
C U R E Foundation Inc$75,0001n/a
Cura Foundation$75,00021%
Old Oaks Foundation Inc$51,67873%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$25,00010%
Palm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc$13,00060%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$5,00010%
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$3,00010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

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How do I get to Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gordon & Norma Smith Family 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 Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation

How much does Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation give?
Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $283,271 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (57%), Education (28%), Religion (7%).
Who are Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yale University ($500k), Central Synagogue ($216k), C U R E Foundation Inc ($75k).
Does Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation based?
Gordon & Norma Smith Family 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 20 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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