Texas · Private foundation
Nora & William Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $179k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,363
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $54,727
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Nora & William Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 7 | $179k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $143k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $238k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $121k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $184k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $230k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $94k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $143k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presbyterian College | $399,753 | 9 | 0% |
| Thornwell | $261,903 | 5 | 1% |
| Columbia Theological Seminary | $135,544 | 5 | n/a |
| Eagle Ranch Inc | $84,303 | 5 | 0% |
| A Child's Haven Inc | $52,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Second Presbyterian Church | $45,183 | 5 | n/a |
| Servants for Sight | $29,363 | 2 | 3% |
| Hopeful Horizons | $12,274 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($399k), not named here.
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: John I Smith Charities Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Nora & William Smith Foundation
- How much does Nora & William Smith Foundation give?
- Nora & William Smith Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $178,909 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nora & William Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (24%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are Nora & William Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Presbyterian College ($400k), Thornwell ($262k), Columbia Theological Seminary ($136k).
- Does Nora & William Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nora & William Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nora & William Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John I Smith Charities Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Nora & William Smith Foundation based?
- Nora & William Smith Foundation is based in TX.
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