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Smart Family Foundation of New York
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $973k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PECCADILLO THEATER COMPANY INC | $200,000 |
| SUPPORT NETWORK | $200,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
| NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNERS INC | $100,000 |
| FOLKSBEINE YIDDISH THEATRE INC | $100,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $100,000 |
| NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY | $75,000 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC | $66,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $709k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NYNew York University6× · 2019–2024 · $950k · revenue +51%
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $900k · revenue +36%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2019–2022 · $500k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $120k
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +72%- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NEW JERSEYone grant, 2020 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the most unlike its peers is Marbledale Road Environmental Coalition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 146 of the 183 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
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- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
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- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PECCADILLO THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
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- Who funds THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
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- Who funds USHER III INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Newalliance Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ibm International Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Smart Family Foundation of New York funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Center for Nonprofit Legal Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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