Florida · Private foundation
Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc
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.
- $9.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,101,936
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 130
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 52 | $9.0M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $8.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $8.0M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $8.8M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 107 | $13M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 128 | $13M | 46% |
| FY2017 | 130 | $13M | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $8,277,272 | 7 | 9% |
| Institute for Humane Studies | $2,415,000 | 6 | 3% |
| American Transparency | $2,125,000 | 6 | 35% |
| New Civil Liberties Alliance | $1,882,666 | 6 | 9% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $1,820,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Vmts Education Inc | $1,500,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Kenyon College | $1,311,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Fdrlst Media Foundation | $1,200,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy | $1,180,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $1,175,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 164 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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
About Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc
- How much does Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc give?
- Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $9,519,936 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 130 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Public Benefit (29%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc ($8.3M), Institute for Humane Studies ($2.4M), American Transparency ($2.1M).
- Does Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc 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 Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc.
- Where is Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc based?
- Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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