New York · Nonprofit
W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC
W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,000 to it, the largest being JOY OF GIVING SOMETHING INC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- National Film Preservation Foundationportfolio match
- Marian Goodman Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Film Preservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marian Goodman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gunk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wood Dock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Douglas C James Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bern Schwartz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey Inc)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Look Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lily Auchincloss Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 244 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC?
- W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,000 to it, the largest being JOY OF GIVING SOMETHING INC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $91,000 in grants to W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC?
- JOY OF GIVING SOMETHING INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing