Connecticut · Private foundation
The Grant and Jacqui Smith 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.
- $234k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 18 | $214k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $225k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $216k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $217k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $173k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $176k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $173k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| On Site Opera Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Ballroom Basix USA Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Catapult Opera Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Theatreworks New Milford | $27,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Sherman Chamber Ensemble Inc | $27,500 | 4 | 7% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| On Site Opera Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Ballroom Basix USA Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Catapult Opera Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Theatreworks New Milford | $27,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Sherman Chamber Ensemble Inc | $27,500 | 4 | 7% |
| The Frick Collection | $21,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington Friends of Music Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Wnet | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rvnahealth Inc | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Church of the Holy Apostles | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($580k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Grant and Jacqui Smith 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation
- How much does The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation give?
- The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $234,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), International (16%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Manhattan Theatre Club Inc ($250k), Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us ($100k), Citymeals-On-Wheels ($80k).
- Does The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Grant and Jacqui Smith 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 The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation based?
- The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation is based in CT.
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