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The Randall & Barbara Smith Foundation at a glance

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The Randall & Barbara Smith Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$4.2MHealth$4.1MArts & Culture$918kPublic Benefit$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$85kInternational$75kSocial Science$75kPhilanthropy$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $827k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$525,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$500,000
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$375,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$175,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$150,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME$76,000
UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER$75,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$50,500
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE$50,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$50,000
COX SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER: $75k → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE MEDICINE: $50k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $600k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $150k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $51k → 11%GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500k → 9%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $675k → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE MEDICINE: $50k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $125k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $50k → 17%GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $375k → 9%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $50k → 17%HUDSON INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $150k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $50k → 17%INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $35k → 14%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $100k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY FACULTY FUND: $250k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $100k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $76k → 7%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 11%SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $41k → 7%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $37k → 7%RENEW DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $29k → 7%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $28k → 7%HARLEM ACADEMY: $30k → 17%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $27k → 7%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $525k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $50k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $50k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $35k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $27k → 11%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $375k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $625k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $225k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $225k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $150k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $225k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $125k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $175k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $125k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
DE
NC
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 32 repeat orgs$931k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
27

Total granted

$9.0M
$676k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+16%

Still filing today

78%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsInternationalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +1%
  • GC
    GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $875k · revenue +52%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    3× · 2019–2024 · $850k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY FACULTY FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • TR
    The Renew Democracy Initiative Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -53%
  • TH
    THYROID HEAD AND NECK CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
10
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Olalashe Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 67 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,225,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $875,000 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCUniversity of Miami: $850,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiCornell University: $750,000 · EducationCornell UniversityHARLEM ACADEMY: $155,000 · Education+5 more: $183,000 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,375,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCE…BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $250,000 · OtherBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTEDUKE UNIVERSITY FACULTY FUND: $250,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY FACULTY FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHYROID HEAD AND NECK CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE MEDICINE INC: $100,000 · Other+29 more: $480,650 · Other+29 moreNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,175,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOU…FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $325,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR INTEGRA…THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $236,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH …THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPIT…HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $97,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $712,000 · Arts & CultureThe Societ…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUS…Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $47,600 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $58,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $50,500 · PhilanthropyFriends of the Grenadines Initiative: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $35,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $5,000 · International
Education$4,038,000Other$2,700,650Health$2,011,500Arts & Culture$967,600Public Safety & Disaster$130,000Philanthropy$82,500International$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,175,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $875,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $850,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $712,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $325,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $236,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $155,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE MEDICINE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $97,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetOpportunity Inc of Palm Beach County: $76,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $50,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $47,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Grenadines Initiative: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOLALASHE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetThe Fund for West Palm Beach Police Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORIGINAL SIX FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEvelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc: $7,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ROSE SOCIETY: $3,100 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASITA MARIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS HEALTH SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE LIVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KRZYZOWA KREISAU FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

Martin D & Jean Shafi…Community Foundation …Community Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Martin D & Jean Shafiroff FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Martin D & Jean Shafiroff Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Randall & Barbara Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Randall & Barbara Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Creative Lives Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Randall & Barbara Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Randall & Barbara Smith Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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