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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$613kHuman Services$402kHealth$332kEnvironment$251kInternational$218kYouth Development$198kCivil Rights$198kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$304k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRIME COALITION INC: $100k → 8%IT TAKS PHILLY: $92k → 7%PRIME COALITION INC: $50k → 8%USHERS NEW LOOK: $398 → 13%NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT: $50k → 17%AVDA: $5k → 16%NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT: $50k → 17%GOOD SEED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2k → 14%WORTHY OF LOVE: $14k → 14%GODISS LOVE: $10k → 14%GODISS LOVE: $6k → 14%GODISS LOVE: $6k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 24 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
90

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

79%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • Sundance Institute
    5× · 2017–2021 · $790k · revenue +1%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $480k · revenue +30%
  • PC
    PRIME COALITION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue ×32 · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • SI
    SANDANCE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue ×16
  • VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue -26%
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
Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment
2
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
3
Multicultural Women Executive Leadership Foundation

The Multicultural Women Executive Leadership Foundation is a non-profit organization that offers leadership and entrepreneurship training and development for multicultural women and men. Its focus is on strengthening the US economic…

Education
4
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
5
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
6
The Council of Urban Professionals Institute

The council of urban professionals institute's (cupi)mission is to inspire, elevate, and empower the next generation of diverse business, civic leaders and women.

Community Improvement
7
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
8
Onyx Impact Inc

Onyx Impact is a nonprofit research, education, and digital innovation hub dedicated to building healthier, safer, and more just digital spaces for Black communities. We fight the spread of harmful information, amplify Black voices, and…

Civil Rights
9
New Media Ventures

We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.

Public Benefit
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Big Thought

The mission of Big Thought is to make imagination a part of everyday learning. We bring relentless optimism, innovation, and imagination to the biggest problem facing education today: the opportunity gap.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Strategy Center; the most unlike its peers is Rebecoming 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

81 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. 81 of the 118 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
44/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sundance Institute: $790,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $480,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEETERNAL SEEDS INC: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $95,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreDABBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $260,000 · OtherDABBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMYSANDANCE INSTITUTE: $150,000 · OtherSANDANCE INSTITUTESEMPER FI AND AMERICA'S FUND: $100,000 · OtherUCLA: $100,000 · OtherASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $65,000 · OtherVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $75,000 · OtherVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $120,000 · OtherVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INCGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $65,938 · Other+54 more: $833,400 · Other+54 morePRIME COALITION INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALI…National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesNational Ca…ILM Foundation: $100,000 · Human ServicesILM Foundat…IT TAKES PHILLY: $92,000 · Human ServicesIT TAKES PH…POWERED BY LOVE: $22,000 · Human Services+6 more: $31,398 · Human Services+6 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $225,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationDEBBIE ALL…New York University: $65,000 · EducationNew York U…Savannah College of Art and DesignInc: $25,000 · EducationSavannah C…+5 more: $36,844 · Education+5 moreMaternity Care Coalition: $75,000 · HealthWhite Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial: $50,000 · HealthGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $45,000 · HealthREBECOMING INC: $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · HealthRyan Gordy Foundation: $10,000 · Health+6 more: $23,500 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $84,738 · Youth DevelopmentTHE VILLAGE NATION INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentHIP HOP SISTERS FOUNDATION INC: $31,250 · Youth Development+5 more: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $36,382 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $26 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$1,430,000Other$1,894,338Human Services$495,398Education$426,844Health$233,500Youth Development$191,988Public Safety & Disaster$161,408

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 budgetSundance Institute: $790,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $480,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetILM Foundation: $100,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetIT TAKES PHILLY: $92,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $84,738 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $65,938 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetETERNAL SEEDS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetNew York University: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE NATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetTHE WATER GENOME: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWhite Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAST KILOMETER CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER NASHVILLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $36,382 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIP HOP SISTERS FOUNDATION INC: $31,250 over 1y, 44% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorthy of Love: $14,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetIota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCODED BY: $11,844 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPure Game: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRyan Gordy Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSLAM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ETHNIC UNDERSTANDING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BLACKHOUSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE CESAR MILLAN FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSHAPE Community Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Houston Texans Founda…Houston Endowment IncUnited Way of Greater…Albert & Ethel Herzst…California Community …Greater Houston Commu…The Starbucks Foundat…The Powell FoundationTides FoundationThe Brown Foundation …AT&T FoundationRockwell Fund Inc
Houston Texans FoundationTX21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Will and Jada Smith Family 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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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