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Herbert L Smith III Family Fund

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.

$53k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$502k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Herbert L Smith III Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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$53k0%
FY20246$44k0%
FY20235$35k40%
FY20228$46k13%
FY20216$35k17%
FY202013$41k46%
FY201912$31k42%
FY201815$32k13%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$128kEnvironment$47kReligion$36kEducation$34kAnimals$27kPhilanthropy$18kHealth$16kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herbert L Smith III Family Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc: $112,210 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetThe North Shore Land Alliance Inc: $34,450 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Shore Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $24,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetGroton School: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLaurel Ridge Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Vale School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHope for New York: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Country Garden Club of Long Island Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEast Woods School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanting Fields Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough New York Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaumsett Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh OkaneFL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · Ainslie Foundation · The Stebbins Fund Inc · John R & Hope Reese Foundation · The Roger Rechler Foundation · Dooley Family Foundation · Knott Family Foundation · Peggy N & Roger G Gerry Charitable · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Herbert L Smith III Family Fund

How much does Herbert L Smith III Family Fund give?
Herbert L Smith III Family Fund reported 7 grants totaling $53,445 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Herbert L Smith III Family Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (35%), Environment (13%), Religion (10%).
Who are Herbert L Smith III Family Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc ($112k), The North Shore Land Alliance Inc ($34k), North Shore Wildlife Sanctuary Inc ($25k).
Does Herbert L Smith III Family Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herbert L Smith III Family Fund 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 Herbert L Smith III Family Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane, Ainslie Foundation, The Stebbins Fund Inc.
Where is Herbert L Smith III Family Fund based?
Herbert L Smith III Family Fund 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 34 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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