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Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc

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.

$450k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,499
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$6.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 arriving17$450k47%
FY202411$443k36%
FY20237$320k14%
FY20227$523k0%
FY20215$465k40%
FY201812$390k67%
FY201712$389kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$758kScience & Tech$285kHealth$259kPhilanthropy$155kHuman Services$30kEnvironment$12kAnimals$8kOther$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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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSuffield Academy: $1,100,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetKentucky Dance Council Inc Dba Louisville Ballet: $225,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $113,443 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $56,804 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLouisville Collegiate School: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMastervoices Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNotre Dame College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNext for Autism Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKmac Museum: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe North Shore Land Alliance Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Irish Historical Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFutures in Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Vale School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Bessemer Giving FundNJ14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc 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 Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc

How much does Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc give?
Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $450,499 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (25%), Science & Tech (10%).
Who are Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Suffield Academy ($1.1M), Kentucky Dance Council Inc Dba Louisville Ballet ($225k), Whitney Museum of American Art ($113k).
Does Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc 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 Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc based?
Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 36 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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