· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $40,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $20,000 |
| CATAPULT OPERA INC | $15,000 |
| CITY HARVEST INC | $15,000 |
| CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS | $15,000 |
| GENERAL BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES OF UMC | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| BALLROOM BASIX USA INC | $8,500 |
| THEATRE WORKS NEW MILFORD | $7,500 |
| WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF MUSIC | $7,500 |
| SHERMAN CHAMBER ENSEMBLE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +35%
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +7%- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- CCCOMMUNITY CULINARY SCHOOL OF NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUTone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Performance of opera to the public.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
To commission and perform new music
Grounded in the belief that excellent opera making should build community and radiate beauty, Heartbeat Opera creates incisive adaptations, revelatory arrangements of classics, and interdisciplinary collaboration. We reckon with the…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ON SITE OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds BALLROOM BASIX USA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Catapult Opera Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS NEW MILFORD ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grant and Jacqui Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc: 9% of income from government
- Sherman Chamber Ensemble Inc: 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Washington Friends of Music Inc: 3% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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