· Private foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k73 grants · $331k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k118 grants · $15M
- $250k+21 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC | $400,000 |
| AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL | $400,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $374,317 |
| INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR INC | $321,750 |
| INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR INC | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $300,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC | $300,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $299,999 |
| THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY | $278,300 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR STRATEGIC EDUCATION | $275,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH | $270,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $256,022 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,548 |
| PROJECT 2049 INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $287k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
239 repeat relationships: 140 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 50 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES5× · 2020–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +6%- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +57%
- HIHudson Institute Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +283%
Funded once
- AFASSOCIATION FOR A NEW CENTURY INCone grant, 2022 · $399k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-USgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue +548%
- AAAMERICA AUSTRALIA ASSOCIATIIONone grant, 2022 · $250k
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 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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
See Disclosure Above.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
How this is measured
328 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. 328 of the 475 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Institute · Charles Koch Foundation · Griffin Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith Richardson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Richardson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Columbus House Inc: 100% of income from government
- The Kennedy Collective Inc: 79% of income from government
- National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
- Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc: 24% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- United States Naval Institute: 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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