· Private foundation
Robert S Smith Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITY OF GREATER HARTFORD | $40,000 |
| HOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC | $30,000 |
| BANCROFT NEUROHEALTH | $30,000 |
| MACC CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| MATH - MEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| GAYLORD HOSPITAL INC | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC | $5,000 |
| ST BERNARD CATOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HVHOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +11%
- BABANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +108%
- MAMEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- BNBANCROFT NEUROHEALTHone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY GREATER HARTFORDone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 89 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds RAY OF LIGHT FARM INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Project Sweet Peas ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT DRAFT HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WICKHAM PARK TR ↗
- Who funds PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SIMSBURY RUGBY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN AFFILIATES INC ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Highland Park Families Foundation · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert S Smith Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert S Smith Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc: 100% of income from government
- Fellowship Place Inc: 66% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
- Hockanum Valley Community Council: 20% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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