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Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation at a glance

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Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$283k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $228k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$114k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER$158,262
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$69,909
THE CURA FOUNDATION$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$12,000
OLD OAKS FOUNDATION$10,000
TOWN OF PALM BEACH WAY$4,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$4,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MGA CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 9%THE CURE FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $219k → 17%NATL MUSEUM CATHOLIC ART LIBRARY: $10k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $12k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 12%OLD OAKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $158k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $12k → 11%OLD OAKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $150k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $6k → 11%OLD OAKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $150k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%OLD OAKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $150k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%OLD OAKS FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%OLD OAKS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 17%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $25k → 11%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 17%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH: $5k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%PALM BEACH UNITED: $2k → 11%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $70k → 17%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $67k → 17%TOWN OF PALM BEACH WAY: $4k → 11%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $40k → 17%TOWN OF PALM BEACH WAY: $4k → 11%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $40k → 17%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%MOMA: $6k → 17%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%MOMA: $5k → 17%TOWN OF PALM BEACH WAY: $2k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONI: $10k → 17%TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY: $2k → 11%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 17%PALM BEACH UNITED WAY: $2k → 11%TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY: $2k → 11%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$2.1M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
-32%

Still filing today

38%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $500k
  • CS
    CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $216k

Funded once

  • CU
    C U R E FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • SF
    STEM FOR LIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $52k
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -32%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $1,176,762 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERYALE UNIVERSITY: $500,100 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $216,109 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEC U R E FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Other+11 more: $166,378 · Other+11 moreCURA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $3,000 · PhilanthropyNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 · International
Other$2,134,349Human Services$75,000Philanthropy$48,000Arts & Culture$25,000International$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCURA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOLD OAKS FOUNDATION INC: $51,678 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CURA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD OAKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon & Norma Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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