Massachusetts · Private foundation
Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 137
- Grants FY2025
- 97
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,606
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 97 to 115
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $303M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Richard & Susan Smith Family 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; $3.6M 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 | 90 | $13M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 97 | $13M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 115 | $15M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 109 | $12M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 110 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $5,377,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $3,100,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Esplanade Association Inc | $3,000,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $2,522,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts | $1,900,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $1,700,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $1,543,973 | 5 | 0% |
| Yale University | $1,300,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Health Resources in Action Inc | $1,246,058 | 3 | 1% |
| Milton Academy | $1,205,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 179 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation
- How much does Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation give?
- Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation reported 137 grants totaling $15,577,783 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 97 and 115 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (32%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Boston Medical Center Corporation ($5.4M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($3.1M), Esplanade Association Inc ($3.0M).
- Does Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation based?
- Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation is based in MA.
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