Texas · Private foundation
Smothers Bruni Foundation
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.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Smothers Bruni Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $178k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $115k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $153k | 72% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $68k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $78k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of Flowers Association | $100,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Mommies in Need | $61,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Magik Childrens Theatre of San Antonio Dba the Magik Theatre | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Franciscan Friars of Hebbronville Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Consejo Real de Reyes Feos Anteriores Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Bryn Mawr College | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Free and Fair Litigation Group Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alamo Heights United Methodist Church | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smothers Bruni 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Smothers Bruni Foundation
- How much does Smothers Bruni Foundation give?
- Smothers Bruni Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $177,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Smothers Bruni Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (15%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Smothers Bruni Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Battle of Flowers Association ($100k), Mommies in Need ($61k), Magik Childrens Theatre of San Antonio Dba the Magik Theatre ($45k).
- Does Smothers Bruni Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smothers Bruni Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smothers Bruni Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is Smothers Bruni Foundation based?
- Smothers Bruni Foundation is based in TX.
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