California · Private foundation
Will and Jada Smith 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.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 95%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $304k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 95% of the organizations Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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 | 2 | $75k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $196k | 95% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $215k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $237k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $781k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $729k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $792k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $874k | 52% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sundance Institute | $790,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The American Film Institute | $480,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Prime Coalition Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $125,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc | $120,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| ILM Foundation | $100,000 | 5 | 21% |
| It Takes Philly | $92,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $84,738 | 1 | 0% |
| Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 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.
Open a dossier: Houston Texans Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Starbucks Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · AT&T Foundation · Rockwell Fund Inc
How this is measured
Compare Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation
- How much does Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation give?
- Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (13%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sundance Institute ($790k), The American Film Institute ($480k), Prime Coalition Inc ($150k).
- Does Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Will and Jada Smith 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 Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Texans Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, United Way of Greater Houston.
- Where is Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation based?
- Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation is based in CA.
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