Delaware · Private foundation
Smilow Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Smilow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $7.3M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $97k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $3.0M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $60k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $107k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.4M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $206k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $512k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport | $1,000,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Madison Square Boys & Girls Club | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Westport Country Playhouse Inc | $96,800 | 3 | 2% |
| Smile Train Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Israel Westport Inc | $66,480 | 5 | n/a |
| Museum of the American Revolution | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smilow Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Fox Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · The Lundberg Family Foundation · The Gendell Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Smilow Foundation
- How much does Smilow Foundation give?
- Smilow Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $7,379,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Smilow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Education (26%), Health (19%).
- Who are Smilow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Norwalk Hospital Foundation ($2.0M), Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport ($1.0M), Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ($250k).
- Does Smilow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smilow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smilow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Newman's Own Foundation, The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation.
- Where is Smilow Foundation based?
- Smilow Foundation is based in DE.
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