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RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION

RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$28M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500k
Net assets
$303M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation does

Program

  1. Not applicable

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($21M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($262M)2022 Revenue 371 ($78M) Expenses 107 ($23M) Net assets 121 ($317M)2023 Revenue 145 ($31M) Expenses 135 ($29M) Net assets 121 ($318M)2024 Revenue 27 ($5.7M) Expenses 122 ($26M) Net assets 113 ($296M)2025 Revenue 134 ($28M) Expenses 110 ($24M) Net assets 115 ($303M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (134)Expenses (110)Net assets (115)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $287M to $317M (+10%).

$287M
$317M
$318M
$296M
$303M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Lynne Doblin

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

20212022202320242025
Listed1616161819
Joined·+0+0+3+1
No longer listed·0010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $13M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Richard and Susan Smith 1990 Charitable Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION

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In Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION?
RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500,000 in grants to RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION?
Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RICHARD & SUSAN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing