John and Gwen Smart Foundation

• The foundation gives only to charitable organisations it has selected in advance and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered.
• Its grants cover research, conservation, women's and social-service groups, cultural organisations and public media, and much of its giving is recorded as general operating support, so a small charity working in one of those fields may fit.
• About 8 in 10 of its 62 grants to organisations fall between $50,000 and $370,000, with a median of $120,000, so a request near the middle of that band is a sensible reference, though the band is not a ceiling.
• Because 94% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had funded before, a new organisation should expect a long, patient route to any award, and the filing states no geographic focus, so location alone should not decide whether to approach it.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Usher III Initiative · General operations
  $500,0002024 tax year
• New York Women's Foundation · General operations
  $450,0002024 tax year
• Stanford University · Metastatic breast cancer research
  $420,0002024 tax year
• Nature Conservancy · San andreas corrido
  $350,0002024 tax year
• Stanford University · Byers eye institute
  $300,0002024 tax year
• Stanford University · Allen morgan standish library fund
  $300,0002024 tax year
• Rogosin Institute · General operations
  $210,0002024 tax year
• Stanford University · Parkinson's research
  $150,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.