Grants awarded
Who does The Smidt Foundation fund?
The Smidt Foundation has awarded $93 million across 700 grants to 402 grantees between 2020 and 2024. Its giving concentrates in education. Its typical grant is $35,000, with most between $15,000 and $100,000. Repeat grantees receive a median $50,000 versus $25,000 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$93.1M
Typical grant
$35K
Grantees
402
Grants
700
Years
2020–2024
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Support |
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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$15.1M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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$9.6M | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | PA | |
Anti-Defamation League
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$5.7M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$5.0M | 7 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$4.1M | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$3.7M | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | RI | |
| P Pef Israel Endowment Funds INC | $1.7M | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Port of Los Angeles High School
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$1.6M | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
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$1.6M | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| J Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles | $1.4M | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor
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$1.3M | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| A American National Red Cross | $1.3M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$1.2M | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
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$1.2M | 4 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | PA | |
Portland Art Museum
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$1.1M | 9 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | OR | |
| U United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY INC | $1.1M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
United States Veterans Initiative
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$1.0M | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| T The Mayor's Fund for La | $1.0M | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| U United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York INC | $1.0M | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Food Forward INC
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$900K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| B Big Picture Learning Company INC | $829K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| M Martin Luther King JR Community Health Foundation | $740K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Los Angeles Urban League INC
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$729K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$715K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Public Counsel
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$670K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
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$635K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Israel Policy Forum INC
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$630K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$601K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| U United Way of Greater Los Angeles | $600K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| A Alliance for Community Empowerment | $580K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| C Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County | $575K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| C Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment | $570K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| A Abc Unified School District | $562K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Los Angeles Police Foundation
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$530K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation
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$515K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation
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$513K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
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$510K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$505K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
New America Foundation
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$500K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| U United Way INC (dba United Way Greater Los Angeles) | $500K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund INC
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$425K | 3 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Downtown Women's Center
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$425K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| E Eastern Carolina Community Foundation INC | $400K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$400K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | MO | |
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
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$325K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | CA | |
| N Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District | $315K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Skillsusa INC | $310K | 4 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
N A A C P Legal Defense and Educational Fund INC
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$310K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | NY | |
| D Da Vinci Schools Fund | $306K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| A Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California | $305K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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$275K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | CA | |
| L Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade INC | $270K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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$260K | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
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$250K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | NY | |
Venice Family Clinic
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$220K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| M Museum Associates DBA Lacma | $215K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
Coro Southern California INC
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$211K | 4 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
Baby2baby
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$202K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| C Central Carolina Community Foundation | $200K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| N NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund INC | $200K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| A American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee INC | $200K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| C Ccf Community Initiative Fund | $200K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
Calmatters
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$200K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | CA | |
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$200K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | AL | |
| I Individual recipient | $200K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic
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$195K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Flintridge Center
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$192K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | CA | |
| G Glendale Unified School District | $188K | 3 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| T The Chrysalis Center | $185K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| U Upper Valley Career Center | $184K | 5 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
South Bay Workforce Investment Board INC
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$183K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | CA | |
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$176K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | CA | |
| S Skills USA INC | $175K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| F Food Share INC | $170K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Angel Flight West INC
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$170K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| N Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District | $163K | 2 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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$160K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Chp 11-99 Foundation
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$160K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Vip Community Mental Health Center INC
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$154K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
The David Foster Foundation
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$150K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Inland Empire Community Foundation
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$150K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
Southern California Grantmakers
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$150K | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
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$145K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | SC | |
| B Beverly Hills Police Officers Benevolent Fund | $141K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| O Oakland Schools | $140K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$140K | 2 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CO | |
| C Community Coalition for Substance Abuse | $125K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| N NAACP Legal Defense Fund INC | $125K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
Skillsusa Foundation INC
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$115K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | VA | |
Feeding America Riverside and San Bernardino Counties
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$115K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| K Kalama School District #402 | $110K | 2 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| G Grossmont Union High School District | $109K | 3 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| J Jefferson County School District R-1 | $105K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | CO | — |
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$100K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | CA | |
| W Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Miracles for Kids INC
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$100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | CA | |
Evergreen School District 114 Foundation
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$100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | WA | |
| B Baldwin County Board of Education | $100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation INC
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$100K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Coaching Corps
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$100K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | CA |
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