Does Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial 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 Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, The Brown Foundation Inc.

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Texas · Private foundation

Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial 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.

$199k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 34
Grants FY2025: 33
Organizations funded FY2024: 42%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 22 to 48; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $3.5M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	34	$199k	18%
FY2024	33	$197k	42%
FY2023	30	$151k	37%
FY2022	42	$207k	43%
FY2021	22	$142k	18%
FY2020	45	$155k	18%
FY2019	48	$128k	54%
FY2018	45	$152k	53%

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$396kArts & Culture$327kEnvironment$88kHuman Services$75kScience & Tech$62kEducation$46kCivil Rights$44kCommunity Improvement$37kOther$0

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
Planned Parenthood South Texas	$132,500	3	1%
Mind Science Foundation	$89,885	9	3%
Family Violence Prevention Services Inc	$62,500	8	0%
Texas Public Radio	$57,000	8	0%
McNay Art Museum	$43,050	8	0%
Artpace Inc (Audit)	$39,000	6	1%
Science Mill	$27,000	6	0%
Blue Star Inc	$26,500	5	n/a
San Antonio Public Library Foundation	$26,125	6	1%
Southwest School of Art	$25,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Planned Parenthood South Texas	$132,500	3	1%
Mind Science Foundation	$89,885	9	3%
Family Violence Prevention Services Inc	$62,500	8	0%
Texas Public Radio	$57,000	8	0%
McNay Art Museum	$43,050	8	0%
Artpace Inc (Audit)	$39,000	6	1%
Science Mill	$27,000	6	0%
Blue Star Inc	$26,500	5	n/a
San Antonio Public Library Foundation	$26,125	6	1%
Southwest School of Art	$25,000	4	0%
Texas Biomedical Research Institute	$23,500	4	0%
Witte Museum	$22,000	6	0%
San Antonio Museum of Art	$18,500	2	0%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc	$16,815	6	0%
National Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund	$15,500	4	0%
The Texas Democracy Foundation	$14,000	4	0%
Texas Tribune Inc	$13,500	7	0%
San Antonio Food Bank	$13,000	5	0%
Luminaria	$10,750	7	1%
Sala Diaz Inc	$10,000	3	17%
The World Affairs Council of San Antonio	$10,000	3	1%
Alamo Public Telecommunications Council Doing Business as Klrn	$10,000	2	0%
Atticus Circle	$9,000	2	10%
F&M Projects	$8,000	1	n/a
The Ann Richards School Foundation	$7,500	3	0%
Recipe for Success Foundation	$7,500	6	0%
Morgan's Wonderland	$7,250	3	0%
Friends of the Rosenberg Library	$7,000	4	n/a
Galveston Historical Foundation	$6,500	5	0%
Empower House Sa	$6,000	4	0%
Magik Childrens Theatre of San Antonio Dba the Magik Theatre	$6,000	3	0%
Liftfund Inc	$5,500	4	0%
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas Inc	$4,500	2	0%
National Network of Abortion Funds	$4,500	2	0%
Fiesta Cornyation Inc	$4,000	3	1%
San Antonio Children's Museum	$3,500	2	0%
San Antonio River Foundation	$3,000	3	0%
Galveston Arts Center	$3,000	1	1%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$2,500	1	0%
UltraViolet Education Fund	$2,500	1	0%
Brackenridge Park Conservancy	$2,500	1	0%
Black Cube	$2,500	1	1%
Devils River Conservancy	$2,500	1	1%
Alzheimers Texas Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Glasstire	$2,350	1	0%
Texas Organizing Project	$2,000	2	0%
Share Our Strength	$2,000	1	0%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Jane's Due Process Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Alliance Francaise of San Antonio Inc	$1,500	2	n/a
San Antonio Report	$1,500	2	0%
Friends of Texas Public Schools	$1,000	1	3%
Abode Contemplative Care	$1,000	2	0%
San Antonio Youth Literacy	$1,000	1	1%
San Antonio Zoological Society	$1,000	1	0%
San Antonio Women's Hall of Fame	$1,000	1	1%
Foundation for Cultural Arts in San Antonio dba Las Casas Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Progress Texas Institute	$1,000	1	0%
Say Si	$1,000	1	n/a
Pearls Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Cube Projects	$1,000	1	n/a
The Praxis Group	$500	1	n/a
Thrivewell Cancer Foundation	$500	1	0%
San Anto Cultural Arts	$500	1	0%
The Houston Food Bank	$500	1	0%
Hemisfair Conservancy	$500	1	0%
The Chow Train	$500	1	1%
Landa Gardens Conservancy	$500	1	0%
Ballet San Antonio	$500	1	0%
Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($623k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 62.

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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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX54.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Hixon Family Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation

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 Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation

How much does Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation give?: Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $198,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Arts & Culture (26%), Environment (7%).
Who are Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood South Texas ($133k), Mind Science Foundation ($90k), Family Violence Prevention Services Inc ($63k).
Does Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial 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 Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, The Brown Foundation Inc.
Where is Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation based?: Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation is based in TX.