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Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
$6,499
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND JOHANNA HOWARD AND HOPE SMITH FDN$150,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
SUFFIELD ACADEMY$60,000
LOUISVILLE BALLET$25,000
THE SOCIETY OF MSK$25,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS$20,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$20,000
NEXT FOR AUTISM$10,000
GREENHOUSE SPORTS$6,499
THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH$5,000
CONCUSSION CARE INT INC$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH$5,000
CBIZ FOUNDATION$5,000
KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART AND CRAFT$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE: $10k → 6%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS: $75k → 7%AUTISM SPEAKS: $57k → 17%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $300k → 11%NOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $25k → 17%FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND JOHANNA HOWARD AND HOPE SMITH FDN: $150k → 11%LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $25k → 15%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $70k → 7%DARBSTER RESCUE: $100k → 11%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $300k → 11%LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $25k → 15%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS: $45k → 7%DARBSTER RESCUE: $100k → 11%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $240k → 11%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS: $30k → 7%MASTERVOICES: $20k → 17%DARBSTER RESCUE: $55k → 11%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $100k → 11%LOUISVILLE BALLET: $100k → 15%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS: $25k → 7%MASTERVOICES: $20k → 17%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $75k → 11%KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 15%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS: $20k → 7%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $88k → 17%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $60k → 11%KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ARTS: $50k → 15%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS: $20k → 7%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25k → 17%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $25k → 11%LOUISVILLE BALLET: $50k → 15%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%LOUISVILLE BALLET: $25k → 15%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $20k → 17%LOUISVILLE BALLET: $25k → 15%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $20k → 17%LOUISVILLE BALLET: $25k → 15%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $20k → 17%KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART AND CRAFT: $10k → 15%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $15k → 17%HARBORING HEARTS: $15k → 17%KENTUCKY SCHOOL OF ART AT SPALDING UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $15k → 17%HARBORING HEARTS: $15k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $15k → 17%THE SOCIETY OF MSK: $25k → 17%NEXT FOR AUTISM: $15k → 17%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$593k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$2.4M
$409k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+7%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsScience & TechEnvironmentOther
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

  • SA
    SUFFIELD ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +47%
  • KD
    KENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +134%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    2× · 2018–2022 · $113k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • KM
    KENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +9%
  • AS
    AUTISM SPEAKS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue -43%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures in Education; the most unlike its peers is Kmac Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 36 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)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $1,100,000 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMYLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $55,000 · Education+5 more: $62,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $255,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABS: $215,000 · OtherCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $155,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND JOHANNA HOWARD AND HOPE SMITH FDN: $150,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND JOHAN…METROPOLITAN OPERA: $115,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAKENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · OtherKENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ARTKENTUCKY MUSEUM OF ARTS: $50,000 · OtherKENTUCKY SCHOOL OF ART AT SPALDING UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Other+7 more: $83,499 · Other+7 moreKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET: $225,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY DANCE …WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $113,443 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM …MASTERVOICES INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMASTERVOICES IN…KMAC MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $56,804 · HealthNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $70,000 · Science & TechTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $3,000 · Animals
Education$1,217,000Other$1,173,499Arts & Culture$418,443Health$91,804Science & Tech$70,000Environment$12,000Animals$8,000

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 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 F…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johanna Howard and Hope Smith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    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.

    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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