California · Private foundation
Smotrich Family 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.
- $497k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,421
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Smotrich Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 22 | $496k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $654k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $256k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $113k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $174k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $173k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $177k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $103k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $1,105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $231,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Beth Jacob Congregation | $94,600 | 9 | n/a |
| Desert Outreach Synagogue | $61,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Jewish Academy of Los Angeles | $41,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Hamakom | $36,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Central Fund of Israel | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bikur Cholim of Palm Springs | $21,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $1,105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $231,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Beth Jacob Congregation | $94,600 | 9 | n/a |
| Desert Outreach Synagogue | $61,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Jewish Academy of Los Angeles | $41,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Hamakom | $36,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Central Fund of Israel | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bikur Cholim of Palm Springs | $21,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Valley Beth Shalom | $14,616 | 2 | n/a |
| United Way Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Hillel at Ucla | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Zionist Organization of America | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Camp Ramah in California Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ilan Ramon Day School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple Bat Yahm | $4,600 | 3 | n/a |
| The Tikvah Fund | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Jewish Congress Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Assistance League of Los Angeles | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Jewish University | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Jewish Symphony | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| De Toledo High School | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tower Cancer Research Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| One Family Fund | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union for Reform Judaism | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($440k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smotrich Family 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · California Community Foundation · Ellie and Mark Lainer Family Foundation · Jacoby Family Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · William & Anna Tenenblatt Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Smotrich Family Foundation
- How much does Smotrich Family Foundation give?
- Smotrich Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $496,921 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Smotrich Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (54%), Religion (29%), Health (10%).
- Who are Smotrich Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($1.1M), Eisenhower Medical Center ($231k), Beth Jacob Congregation ($95k).
- Does Smotrich Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smotrich Family 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 Smotrich Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Federation Council of Greater La, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Smotrich Family Foundation based?
- Smotrich Family Foundation is based in CA.
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