Funding search · EIN 560611550 · Greensboro, NC

Smith Richardson Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

834
grants reported
$70.3M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$50,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Top recipients

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  • Center for Strategic and International Studies24 grants · $3.9M
  • Stanford University9 grants · $2.1M
  • American Foreign Policy Council10 grants · $2.0M
  • Foundation for the Defense of Democracies8 grants · $2.0M
  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research12 grants · $1.8M
  • Atlantic Council of the United States14 grants · $1.7M
  • Brookings Institution13 grants · $1.6M
  • Hudson Institute10 grants · $1.5M
  • Jamestown Foundation11 grants · $1.2M
  • University of Notre Dame6 grants · $1.1M

Giving over time

$25.8M
2022
$22.3M
2023
$22.3M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 834 grants.

  • $404,355

    Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $400,000

    American Foreign Policy Council · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $400,000

    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $400,000

    American Foreign Policy Council · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $400,000

    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $400,000

    American Foreign Policy Council · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $400,000

    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $388,089

    Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $374,317

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $361,230

    Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $350,000

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $350,000

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $325,200

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $321,750

    Institute for the Study of War · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $319,000

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    Institute for the Study of War · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2024

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    Resources for the Future · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2023

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    Resources for the Future · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $300,000

    University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2022

    General operating support

  • $299,999

    Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $281,124

    Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $278,300

    The Alexander Hamilton Society · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $278,300

    The Alexander Hamilton Society · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $278,300

    The Alexander Hamilton Society · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $275,168

    Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $275,000

    American Academy for Strategic Education · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $275,000

    American Academy for Strategic Education · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $270,000

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $267,300

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $263,703

    National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $258,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $256,022

    Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024

    General operating support

  • $251,582

    American Institutes for Research · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,548

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Center for a New American Security · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Gjrtt Family Grants Program · Greensboro, NC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Nonproliferation Policy Education Center · Arlington, VA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Private Capital Researach Institute · South Hamilton, MA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Project 2049 Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    America Abroad Media · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Asia Society · New York, NY · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Center for Advanced Defense Studies · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Gjrtt Family Grants Program · Greensboro, NC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Nonproliferation Policy Education Center · Arlington, VA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    America Abroad Media · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    America Australia Associatiion · New York, NY · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Atlantic Council of the United States · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Brown University Annenberg Institute · Providence, RI · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Gjrtt Family Grants Program · Greensboro, NC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Hudson Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    The Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    The Volcker Alliance · New York, NY · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    U S Committee for Human Rights in North Korea · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $249,998

    American Institutes for Research · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $249,993

    Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023

    General operating support

  • $249,990

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $249,804

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $248,950

    Association for a New Century · Sewickley, PA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $247,500

    Foundation for Resilient Societies · Nashua, NH · 2022

    General operating support

  • $245,786

    Georgia State University Research Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $245,773

    Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2024

    General operating support

  • $245,000

    Information Technology & Innovation Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $242,752

    Center for European Policy Analysis · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $234,386

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $230,000

    American Academy for Strategic Education · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $229,999

    American Institutes for Research · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    Center for Advanced Defense Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    Georgia State University Research Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    Georgia State University Research Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    Jamestown Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    University of Texas Law School Foundation · Austin, TX · 2023

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    Free Russia Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    Jamestown Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $225,000

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $219,615

    Hudson Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating support

  • $218,470

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $214,479

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $211,750

    Center for European Policy Analysis · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $205,652

    Center for a New American Security · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $205,613

    Reegents of the Univesity of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $204,792

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $203,500

    Naval War College Foundation · Newport, RI · 2023

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Administrators of the Tulane Education Fund · New Orleans, LA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences · Arlington, VA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Atlantiac Council of the United States · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Center for a New American Security · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

    General operating support

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