New York · Private foundation
Howard Smith Family 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.
- $81k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $176k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Howard Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $81k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $77k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $72k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $75k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $57k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $40k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $29k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $33k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc | $126,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwell Health Foundation | $101,575 | 9 | 0% |
| Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center | $56,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $50,010 | 9 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $20,850 | 9 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $12,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Allyn P Udell Hello Dolly Foundation Inc | $8,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Old Westbury Pba Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $2,900 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard Smith Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Howard Smith Family Foundation
- How much does Howard Smith Family Foundation give?
- Howard Smith Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $81,269 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Howard Smith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (59%), Human Services (12%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Howard Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc ($126k), Northwell Health Foundation ($102k), Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center ($56k).
- Does Howard Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard Smith Family Foundation 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 Howard Smith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Howard Smith Family Foundation based?
- Howard Smith Family Foundation is based in NY.
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