· Private foundation
Smith Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Urban Promise | $25,000 |
| Trenton Circus Squad | $25,000 |
| The Age-Out Angels | $25,000 |
| Trenton Youth Wrestling | $25,000 |
| Rutgers University | $17,500 |
| EveryBody Finds Inner Tenacity | $16,500 |
| Beauty To the Block | $15,500 |
| Trenton Makes Athletic Center | $15,000 |
| Kean University | $15,000 |
| Mercer County Community College | $10,000 |
| Weston Video Media LLC | $6,000 |
| First Antioch Church | $5,500 |
| Spelman College | $5,000 |
| Clark Atlanta University | $5,000 |
| Messiah University | $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 (FY18–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +51% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 36 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HomeWorks Trenton2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +161%
Embright Education3× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +146%
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NJ2× · 2023–2024 · $34k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TVTRUE VINE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INCone grant, 2018 · $437k
- NPNJ Pandemic Relief Fundone grant, 2021 · $50k
- COCITY OF TRENTONone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.
Child advocacy
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.
Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.
Rider university is a comprehensive, private university offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business, education, liberal arts, sciences, music, and fine and performing arts.see schedule o for rider university's mission, vision,…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 138 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 HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds Embright Education ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NJ ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRENTON MAKES ATHLETIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRENTON YOUTH WRESTLING AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
- Who funds UIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey ↗
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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The James Kerney Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Burke Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Mercer County
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Prevention Education Inc: 39% of income from government
- Passage Theatre Company Inc: 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton: 6% of income from government
- Special Parent Advocacy Group: 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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