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The Thomas W. Smith Foundation is a private 501(c)(3) charity based out of Boca Raton, Florida. The foundation received its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 2015.
The Thomas W. Smith Foundation does not host a website, and the founder "keeps a low profile" according to Popular Information[1]. However, in 2008, the New York Times reported the foundation was "dedicated to supporting free markets".[2]
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News and Controversies
Thomas W. Smith Foundation Identified as Major Funder of Anti-CRT Movement
Popular Information investigated the rising hysteria surrounding the academic concept of Critical Race Theory. They found many of the loudest voices in the Anti-CRT movement shared the same major funder, the Thomas W. Smith Foundation. Some of these organizations include the Manhattan Institute, The Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and The State Policy Network. Manhattan Institute senior fellow James Pierson is listed as TWS Foundation's highest paid employee in 2019 and wrote in a Washington Examiner op-ed, "Charitable foundations have felt the great sustained pressure to 'pay up' for alleged sins against the ideals of racial and economic equality. It started out as pressure from a few vocal activists banging on the doors of large foundations. It's turned into a movement in which philanthropic leaders are falling over themselves to throw money at their critics in hopes of mollifying them..." Thomas W. Smith himself is listed as a trustee for the Manhattan Institute.[1]
TWS Foundation Director Opposes 'Postmodernism' in Higher Education Curricula
In 2008, Director James Pierson spoke with the New York Times about a $1 million donation from the TWS foundation to the Political Theory Project at Brown University. He discusses the general movement of conservative organizations toward college campuses, saying they were working "against the thrust of programs and courses in gender, race and class studies, and postmodernism in general."
"Their goal is to restore what conservative and other critics see as leading casualties of the campus culture wars of the 1980s and '90s: teaching of Western culture and a triumphal interpretation of American history", the article states.[2]
Ties to ALEC
Thomas W. Smith Foundation has donated at least $575,000 to the American Legislative Exchange Council since 2017.
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Ties to the State Policy Network
Thomas W. Smith Foundation has donated at least $1,343,600 to the State Policy Network since 2016.
SPN is a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 48 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. As of June 2024, SPN's membership totals 167. Today's SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party. SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told the Wall Street Journal in 2017 that the revenue of the combined groups was some $80 million, but a 2022 analysis of SPN's main members IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the combined revenue is over $152 million.[3] Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right-wing network of funders.[4]
In response to CMD's report, SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told national and statehouse reporters that SPN affiliates are "fiercely independent." Later the same week, however, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer caught Sharp in a contradiction. In her article, "Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?," the Pulitzer-nominated reporter revealed that, in a recent meeting behind closed doors with the heads of SPN affiliates around the country, Sharp "compared the organization’s model to that of the giant global chain IKEA." She reportedly said that SPN "would provide 'the raw materials,' along with the 'services' needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. 'Pick what you need,' she said, 'and customize it for what works best for you.'" Not only that, but Sharp "also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. 'The grants are driven by donor intent,' she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, 'the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen.'"[5]
A set of coordinated fundraising proposals obtained and released by The Guardian in early December 2013 confirm many of these SPN members' intent to change state laws and policies, referring to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings." These activities "arguably cross the line into lobbying," The Guardian notes.[6]
Grants Distributed
As listed on Thomas W. Smith Foundation's IRS 990 Filings:
2023
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $200,000
- American Legislative Exchange Council: $300,000
- American Transparency: $250,000
- American Watchdogs: $150,000
- Arizona State University: $150,000
- Ashland University: $110,000
- B&T Club Historic Building Pres FDTN: $5,000
- Ballet Sun Valley: $21,610
- Beacon Center of Tennessee: $75,000
- Boston College: $90,000
- Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation: $120,000
- Center for Family SVCs of PBC: $50,000
- Christopher Newport University: $100,000
- City College of NY: $120,000
- Clemson University: $150,000
- C02 Coalition: $100,000
- Committee to Unleash Prosperity: $230,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $125,000
- Duke University: $125,000
- Federalist Society: $110,000
- FDRLST Media Foundation: $150,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $150,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $60,000
- Foundation for the Constitution: $150,000
- Freedom Foundation: $150,000
- Garden State Initiative: $30,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $150,000
- Glades Academy Foundation: $1,000
- Goodman Institute: $25,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $200,000
- Graduate School Foundation-CUNY: $102,757
- Heterodox Academy: $200,000
- Independent Women's Forum: $50,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $310,000
- Institute for Justice: $150,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $150,000
- Kenyon College: $157,000
- Lord's Place: $2,500
- Manhattan Institute: $1,345,904
- Miami University: $100,000
- Norton Museum of Art: $10,000
- Parents Defending Education: $50,000
- Partnership for Inner City Ed: $25,000
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $1,000
- Pennvet Ryan Veterinary Hospital: $10,000
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000
- Princeton University: $150,000
- Real Clear Foundation: $500,000
- Rehabilitation Center for Children & Adults: $2,500
- Salt Marsh Opera: $500
- Sister Servants of the Eternal World: $1,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $5,000
- Stanford University: $150,000
- Student Free Press Association: $25,000
- Sun Valley Performing Arts: $15,000
- Texas Tech University: $100,000
- University of Arizona: $225,000
- University of California Law School: $170,000
- University of Miami: $25,000
- University of Notre Dame: $350,000
- VMTS Education Incorporation: $300,000
- Workfirst Foundation: $30,000
2022
- Abigail Adams Institute: $75,000
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $200,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $50,000
- Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $50,000
- American Humane: $1,000
- American Institute for Economic Research: $50,000
- American Studio: $50,000
- American Transparency: $300,000
- American Watchdogs: $120,000
- Arizona State University: $375,000
- Ashland University: $110,000
- Assoc of Private Enterprise Education: $40,000
- Atlas Network: $200,000
- Avondale Chapel Fund: $350
- Ballet Sun Valley: $20,890
- Beta Theta Pi Foundation: $27,000
- Boston College: $90,000
- Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County: $5,000
- Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation: $145,000
- Cato Institute: $30,000
- Center for Family SVCs of PBC: $50,000
- Chapman University: $50,000
- Christopher Newport University: $100,000
- City College of NY: $140,000
- Clemson University: $235,000
- Colonial Theatre: $5,000
- Committee to Unleash Prosperity: $200,000
- Common Sense Society: $25,000
- Dartmouth College: $125,000
- Duke University: $125,000
- East Beach Association: $300
- Encounter Books: $50,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $150,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $50,000
- Franklin News Foundation: $150,000
- Furman University: $50,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $350,000
- Georgetown University Law Center: $255,000
- Glades Academy Foundation: $2,000
- Goodman Institute: $25,000
- Graduate School Foundation-CUNY: $250,000
- Hattie Hills Horse Rescue: $2,000
- Heterodox Academy: $200,000
- Higher Ground Sun Valley: $15,000
- Hillsdale College: $200
- Independent Women's Forum: $50,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $460,000
- Kenyon College: $377,000
- Libertas Institute: $25,000
- Manhattan Institute: $982,988
- Mercatus Center: $700,000
- Memorial and Liberty Association: $350
- Miami City Ballet: $5,000
- Miracle Horse Rescue: $1,500
- Mountain Mission School: $5,000
- National Forest Foundation: $5,000
- New Civil Liberties Alliance: $333,000
- New York University: $100,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $150,000
- Palm Beach Civic Association: $1,000
- Palm Beach Island Hospice Foundation: $5,000
- Parents Defending Education: $50,000
- Partnership for Inner City Ed: $25,000
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $1,000
- PragerU Foundation: $250,000
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000
- Princeton University: $320,000
- Property and Environment Research Center: $75,000
- Real Clear Foundation: $200,000
- Rhodes College: $85,000
- Salt Marsh Opera: $500
- Sister Servants of the Eternal World: $5,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $50,000
- St. Luke's Wood River Foundation: $5,000
- Stanford University: $150,000
- Storm King Art Center: $35,000
- Student Free Press Association: $25,000
- Students for Fair Admissions: $100,000
- Texas Tech University: $100,000
- University of California Law School: $170,000
- University of Miami: $26,200
- Unreported Story Society: $50,000
- University of Notre Dame: $350,000
- VMTS Education Incorporation: $300,000
- Watch Hill Conservancy: $10,000
- Westerly Hospital Foundation: $5,000
- Young America's Foundation: $30,000
2021
- Abigail Adams Institute: $75,000
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $300,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $50,000
- Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $25,000
- American Institute for Economic Research: $150,000
- American Legislative Exchange Council: $150,000
- American Spectator Foundation: $75,000
- American Transparency: $295,000
- American Watchdogs: $150,000
- Argyros Performing Arts Center: $25,000
- Arizona State University: $300,000
- Ashland University: $300,000
- Assumption College: $35,000
- Atlas Network: $100,000
- Avondale Chapel Fund: $350
- B&T Club Historic Building Pres. Foundation: $5,000
- Ballet Sun Valley: $22,135
- Beacon Center of Tennessee: $75,000
- Beta Theta Pi Foundation: $2,000
- Boston College: $90,000
- Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County: $5,000
- Brown University: $125,000
- Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation: $145,000
- Cato Institute: $100,000
- Center for American Greatness: $200,000
- Center for Family SVCs of PBC: $35,000
- Center for Independent Thought: $50,000
- Chapman University: $45,522
- Christopher Newport University: $100,000
- Claremont Institute: $150,000
- Clemson University: $235,000
- CO2 Coalition: $100,000
- Committee to Unleash Prosperity: $330,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $100,000
- Dartmouth College: $125,000
- Documentary Foundation: $75,000
- DonorsTrust: $300,000
- Duke University: $125,000
- Emily Catherine Fedorko Foundation: $500
- Encounter Books: $100,000
- Encounter for Culture and Education: $50,000
- Environmental Resource Center: $1,000
- Federalist Media Foundation: $400,000
- Federalist Society: $110,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $200,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $150,000
- Foundation for Government Accountability: $100,000
- Freedom Foundation: $200,000
- Furman University: $50,000
- George Mason University- The Mercatus Center: $375,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $200,000
- Georgetown University Law Center: $255,000
- Goodman Institute: $25,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $200,000
- Graduate School Foundation-CUNY: $250,000
- Heterodox Academy: $150,000
- Higher Ground Sun Valley: $15,000
- Hillsdale College: $50,000
- Hospital For Special Surgery: $10,000
- Independent Women's Forum: $50,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $610,000
- Institute for Justice: $250,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $200,000
- Jimmy Lee Scholarship Fund: $5,000
- Kenyon College: $197,000
- Libertas Institute: $50,000
- Lynne Cohen Foundation: $10,000
- Manhattan Institute: $1,450,000
- Mercatus Center: $700,000
- Memorial and Liberty Assocation: $350
- Miracle Horse Rescue: $1,000
- Museum of Modern Art: $2,000
- National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $100,000
- New Civil Liberties Alliance: $333,000
- New York Historical Society: $12,000
- New York Philharmonic: $1,000
- New York University: $210,000
- Norton Museum of Art: $10,000
- Opportunity, Inc.: $3,500
- Pacific Research Institute: $150,000
- Palm Beach Civic Association: $1,000
- Palm Beach County Food Bank: $1,500
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $6,000
- Policy Circle: $25,000
- PragerU Foundation: $250,000
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000
- Princeton University: $320,000
- Property and Environment Research Center: $100,000
- Purdue University: $145,000
- Real Clear Foundation: $350,000
- Rhodes College: $85,000
- Salt Marsh Opera: $500
- Sister Servants of the Eternal World: $1,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $25,000
- St. Luke's Wood River Foundation: $10,000
- Stanford University: $75,000
- State Policy Network: $300,000
- Stonington Land Trust: $1,000
- Storm King Art Center: $10,000
- Student Free Press Association: $50,000
- Texas Public Policy Foundation: $250,000
- Turning Point USA: $25,000
- University of California Law School Boalt Hall: $285,000
- University of Miami: $100,000
- University of Notre Dame: $350,000
- Unreported Story Society: $100,000
- US Navy Memorial Foundation: $200
- Utah State University: $219,000
- Villanova University: $100,000
- VMTS Education Incorporation: $300,000
- Westerly Hospital Foundation: $5,000
- Woodson Center: $100,000
- Workfirst Foundation: $50,000
- Yale University: $75,000
- Young America's Foundation: $1,000
2020
- Abigail Adams Institute: $75,000
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $275,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $50,000
- American Ideas Institute: $15,000
- American Institute for Economic Research: $50,000
- American Legislative Exchange Council: $150,000
- American Spectator Foundation: $50,000
- American Transparency: $330,000
- American Watchdogs: $150,000
- Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley: $1,000
- Argyros Performing Arts Center: $25,000
- Arizona State University: $150,000
- Association of Private Enterprise Education: $40,000
- Assumption College: $35,000
- Atlas Network: $200,000
- Avondale Chapel Fund: $300
- B&T Club Historic Building Pres. Foundation: $5,000
- Ballet Sun Valley: $25,000
- Beacon Center of Tennessee: $75,000
- Beta Theta Pi Foundation: $3,000
- Blexit Foundation: $100,000
- Boston College: $21,600
- Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County: $6,000
- Brown University: $125,000
- Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation: $145,000
- Caringbridge: $200
- Carnegie Hall Society: $25,000
- Cato Institute: $20,000
- Center for American Greatness: $100,000
- Center for Family SVCs of PBC: $50,000
- Chapman University: $26,756
- Chorus of Westerly- Summer Pops: $250
- City College 21st Century Foundation: $175,000
- Claremont Institute: $100,000
- Clemson University: $235,000
- CO2 Coalition: $100,000
- Committee to Unleash Prosperity: $50,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $100,000
- Center for State-Led National Debt Solutions: $25,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $100,000
- Dartmouth College: $125,000
- Discovery Institute: $150,000
- DonorsTrust: $400,000
- Duke University: $125,000
- East Beach Association: $300
- Emily Catherine Fedorko Foundation: $500
- Encounter for Culture and Education: $50,000
- Federalist Media Foundation: $200,000
- Federalist Society: $190,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $175,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $100,000
- Franklin News Foundation: $150,000
- Free to Choose Network: $5,000
- FreedomWorks: $150,000
- Fund for American Studies: $25,000
- Furman University: $50,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $200,000
- Georgetown University Law Center: $255,000
- Gilder Lehrman Institute: $5,000
- Glades Academy Foundation: $2,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $150,000
- Graduate School Foundation-CUNY: $250,000
- Higher Ground Sun Valley: $15,000
- Hillsdale College: $105,000
- Independent Women's Forum: $50,000
- Instauratio Magna Foundation: $25,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $460,000
- Institute for Justice: $250,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $150,000
- Invictus Fund NV: $5,000
- Jack Miller Center: $100,000
- Jewish Review of Books: $2,000
- Judicial Education Project: $300,000
- Judicial Watch: $25,000
- Ketchum Fire Department: $350
- Lynne Cohen Foundation: $5,000
- Manhattan Institute: $1,305,595
- Mercatus Center: $700,000
- Merwin Conservancy: $250
- Moving Picture Institute: $100,000
- National Review Institute: $25,000
- National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $100,000
- New Civil Liberties Alliance: $333,333
- New York Historical Society: $12,000
- New York Philharmonic: $1,000
- New York University: $210,000
- Norton Museum of Art: $10,000
- Opportunity, Inc.: $26,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $190,000
- Palm Beach Civic Association: $5,000
- Palm Beach County Food Bank: $1,500
- Palm Beach Island Hospice Foundation: $150
- Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation: $1,000
- Park Avenue Armory: $25,000
- Partnership for Inner City Ed: $10,000
- Patricia Blanco Animal Foundation: $450
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $1,250
- Philanthropy Tank: $1,000
- PragerU Foundation: $100,000
- Princeton University: $320,000
- Property and Environment Research Center: $100,000
- Purdue University: $145,000
- Real Clear Foundation: $550,000
- Reason Foundation: $10,000
- Rhodes College: $90,000
- Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity: $9,500
- Salt Marsh Opera: $500
- Save Venice: $2,500
- Shatterproof: $250
- Sister Servants of the Eternal World: $1,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $30,000
- St. Luke's Wood River Foundation: $5,000
- Stanford University: $75,000
- State Policy Network: $300,000
- Storm King Art Center: $10,000
- Student Free Press Association: $50,000
- Sun Valley Center: $750
- Texas Public Policy Foundation: $100,000
- Texas Tech Foundation: $100,000
- Town of Palm Beach United Way: $1,500
- Turning Point USA: $50,000
- University of Chicago Illinois: $125,000
- University of Notre Dame: $348,453
- Utah State University: $219,000
- Watch Hill Chapel Society: $500
- Westerly Hospital Foundation: $10,000
- Westerly Library and Wilcox Park: $200
- Woodson Center: $100,000
- Wood River Community YMCA: $5,000
- Workfirst Foundation: $25,000
- Yale University: $60,000
- Yankee Institute for Public Policy: $50,000
- Young America's Foundation: $100,000
2019
- Abigail Adams Institute: $75,000
- AFP Foundation for Philanthropy: $250,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $50,000
- Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $25,000
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $200,000
- American Institute for Economic Research: $50,000
- American Legislative Exchange Council: $100,000
- American Spectator Foundation: $100,000
- American Transparency: $591,612
- American Watchdogs: $150,000
- Arizona State University: $150,000
- Ashbrook University: $100,000
- Association of Private Enterprise Education: $40,000
- Assumption College: $70,000
- Atlas Network: $100,000
- Avondale Chapel Fund: $300
- Ballet Sun Valley: $25,000
- Beacon Center of Tennessee: $25,000
- Beta Theta Pi Foundation: $1,000
- Brown University: $200,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $154,400
- Caringbridge: $150
- Carnegie Hall Society: $25,000
- Cato Institute: $20,000
- Center for American Greatness: $75,000
- Center for Independent Thought: $50,000
- Chapman University: 37,661
- Chorus of Westerly-Summer Pops: $250
- Christopher Newport University: $125,000
- City College 21st Century Foundation: $175,000
- Claremont Institute: $100,000
- Classroom, Inc.: $10,000
- Clemson University: $235,000
- CO2 Coalition: $150,000
- Committee to Unleash Prosperity: $150,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $100,000
- Dartmouth College: $125,000
- Duke University: $125,000
- Emily Catherine Pedorko Foundation: $500
- Encounter for Culture and Education: $120,000
- Environmental Resource Center: $1,000
- Federalist Media Foundation: $150,000
- Federalist Society: $210,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $225,000
- Foundation for Constitutional Government: $200,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $100,00
- Foundation to Restore Accountability: $100,000
- Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity: $100,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $650,000
- Georgetown University Law Center: $117,000
- Gilder Lehrman Institute: $5,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $200,000
- Graduate School Foundation-CUNY: $250,000
- Heritage Foundation: $150,000
- Heterodox Academy: $150,000
- Higher Ground Sun Valley: $16,000
- Hillsdale College: $40,000
- Independent Women's Forum: $50,000
- Instauration Magna Foundation: $25,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $350,000
- Institute for Justice: $250,000
- Intelligence Squared US Foundation: $50,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $150,000
- Jack Miller Center: $175,000
- Jewish Review of Books: $2,000
- Judicial Watch: $50,000
- King's College: $100,000
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: $5,520
- Manhattan Institute: $1,271,037
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $24,978
- Media Research Center: $5,000
- Merwin Conservancy: $1,500
- Miami City Ballet: $5,000
- National Review Institute: $25,000
- New Civil Liberties Alliance: $333,334
- New York Historical Society: $11,300
- New York University: 210,000
- Norton Museum of Art: $26,000
- NYU School of Medicine: $50,000
- Opera on Tap: $5,000
- Opportunity, Inc.: $50,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $150,000
- Park Avenue Armory: $24,510
- Patricia Blanco Animal Foundation: $250
- Partnership for Inner City Ed: $20,000
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $1,000
- Pesky Center: $5,000
- Philanthropy Tank: $1,000
- PragerU Foundation: $100,000
- Princeton University: $310,000
- Property and Environment Research Center: $100,000
- Punahou School: $10,000
- Purdue University: $145,000
- Halston College: $125,000
- Reclaim New York: $50,000
- Real Clear Foundation: $100,000
- Reason Foundation: $10,000
- Rehab Center for Children and Adults: $5,000
- Rhodes College: $90,000
- Ryan Center at Villanova University: $100,000
- Salt Marsh Opera: $500
- Save Venice: $4,769
- Shatterproof: $1,000
- Sister Servants of the Eternal World: $1,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $15,000
- Socrates Sculpture Park: $40,000
- Stanford University: $150,000
- State Policy Network: $350,000
- Stonington Land Trust: $500
- Storm King Art Center: $10,000
- Student Free Press Association: $50,000
- Sun Valley Center: $750
- Sun Valley Performing Arts Center: $15,000
- Sun Valley Writers Conference: $13,100
- Texas Public Policy Foundation: $100,000
- Texas Tech Foundation: $100,000
- Town of Palm Beach United Way: $1,000
- Turning Point USA: $100,000
- University of California Law School: $285,000
- University of California, Berkley: $225,000
- University of Chicago: $125,000
- University of Montana: $50,000
- University of Pennsylvania: $100,000
- University of Richmond: $100,000
- University of Texas: $50,000
- University of Virginia College Foundation: $100,000
- US Navy Memorial Foundation: $200
- Utah State University: $219,000
- Wake Forest University: $320,000
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Keepers Association: $1,000
- West Virginia University Foundation: $100,000
- Westerly Hospital Foundation: $5,000
- Westerly Revolving Fund: $5,000
- Yale University: $50,000
- Yankee Institute for Public Policy: $50,000
- Young America's Foundation: $100,000
2018
- Abigail Adams Institute
- Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government: $125,000
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $750,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $50,000
- Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $25,000
- American Legislative Exchange Council: $125,000
- American Spectator Foundation: $55,000
- American Transparency: $770,615
- American Watchdogs: $195,000
- Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $500,000
- Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley: $10,000
- Ashland University: $100,000
- Assumption College: $210,000
- Atlas Network: $75,000
- Ballet Sun Valley: $25,000
- Beacon Center of Tennessee: $25,000
- Brown University: $200,000
- Buckeye Institute: $150,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $295,000
- Caringbridge: $375
- Carnegie Hall Society: $25,000
- Center for American Greatness: $50,000
- Center for Independent Thought: $20,000
- Central Park Conservancy: $1,000
- Chapman University: $112,901
- Chorus of Westerly- Summer Pops: $250
- Christopher Newport University: $125,000
- Citizens against Government Waste: $1,000
- City College 21st Century Foundation: $20,000
- Classroom, Inc.: $10,000
- Clemson University: $235,000
- CO2 Coalition: $100,000
- Committee to Unleash Prosperity: $100,000
- Duke University: $300,000
- Encounter for Culture and Education: $150,000
- Federalist Society: $320,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $250,000
- Foundation for Constitutional Government: $200,000
- Friends of ICSEP: $20,0004
- Fund for Blood and Cancer Research: $100,000
- Furman University: $50,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $750,000
- Georgetown University Law Center: $117,000
- Gilder Lehrman Institute: $5,000
- Global Wildlife Conservation: $10,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $200,000
- Graduate School Foundation- CUNY: $250,000
- Heritage Foundation: $225,000
- Heterodox Academy: $100,000
- Higher Ground Sun Valley: $14,750
- Hospital for Special Surgery: $20,000
- Illinois Policy Institute: $150,000
- Independent Women's Forum: $50,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $350,000
- Institute for Justice: $250,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $150,000
- Jack Miller Center: $1750,000
- John Locke Foundation: $34,500
- Judicial Watch: $50,000
- Ketchum Fire Department: $350
- King's College: $100,000
- Lee Pesky Learning Center: $5,000
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: $5,520
- Manhattan Institute: $1,102,474
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $25,000
- Media Research Center: $10,000
- Merwin Conservancy: $250
- Miami City Ballet: $5,000
- Miami University Art Museum: $8,300
- Miami University Foundation: $10,000
- Moving Picture Institute: $150,000
- Museum of Modern Art: $1,294
- National Review Institute: $20,000
- New Civil Liberties Alliance: $333,333
- New York Historical Society: $11,300
- New York Philharmonic: $14,054
- New York University: $120,000
- Opening Doors for Westerly's Children: $1,000
- Opera on Tap: $5,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $150,000
- Palm Beach Civic Association: $1,000
- Palm Beach County Food Bank: $500
- Patricia Blanco Animal Foundation: $250
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $1,000
- Princeton University: $185,000
- Property and Environment Research Center: $100,000
- Purdue University: $145,000
- Reclaim New York: $50,000
- Rhodes College: $90,000
- Rockefeller University: $5,000
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institution: $300
- Ryan Center at Villanova: $100,000
- Salt Marsh Opera: $500
- Sister Servants of the Eternal World: $1,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $15,000
- Socrates Sculpture Park: $40,000
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: $5,000
- St. Luke's Wood River Foundation: $5,000
- Stanford University: $150,000
- State Policy Network: $250,000
- Stonington Land Trust: $1,000
- Storm King Art Center: $10,000
- Student Free Press Association: $50,000
- Sun Valley Center: $750
- Sun Valley Summer Symphony: $15,000
- Sun Valley Writers Conference: $15,000
- Texas Public Policy Foundation: $100,000
- Texas Tech Foundation: $100,000
- Town of Palm Beach United Way: $1,000
- Turning Point USA: $100,000
- United Theatre: $150,000
- University of California Law School: $275,000
- University of Chicago: $100,000
- University of Montana: $50,000
- University of Notre Dame: $100,000
- University of Pennsylvania: $100,000
- University of Richmond: $100,000
- University of Texas: $50,000
- University of Virginia College Foundation: $100,000
- Utah State University: $80,000
- Wake Forest University: $460,000
- Watch Hill Chapel Society: $1,000
- Watch Hill Library/Improvement: $200
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Keepers Association: $1,000
- West Virginia University Foundation: $100,000
- Westerly Library and Wilcox Park: $200
- William F. Buckley Jr. Program: $60,000
- Wood River Community YMCA: $700
- Wooster Group: $10,000
- Yankee Institute for Public Policy: $15,000
2017
- Abigail Adams Institute: $50,000
- Academy on Capitalism: $25,000
- Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government: $125,000
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $150,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $50,000
- Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $30,000
- American Legislative Exchange Council: $200,000
- American Spectator: $55,000
- American Transparency: $600,000
- American Watchdogs: $120,000
- Atlas Network: $50,000
- Ballet Sun Valley: $20,000
- Beacon Center of Tennessee: $25,000
- Beta Theta Pi Foundation: $1,000
- Boston College: $92,000
- Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County: $1,000
- Brown University: $200,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $295,000
- Caringbridge: $250
- Carnegie Hall Society: $25,000
- Cato Institute: $20,000
- Central Park Conservancy: $1,000
- Chapman University: $75,000
- Chorus of Westerly-Summer Pops: $250
- Christopher Newport University: $125,000
- Citizens Against Government Waste: $1,000
- Citizens for Self-Governance: $100,000
- City College 21st Century Foundation: $20,000
- Classroom, Inc: $10,000
- Clemson University: $286,250
- CO2 Coalition: $75,000
- Commentary, Inc: $25,000
- Copenhagen Consensus Center USA: $50,000
- Dartmouth College: $125,000
- David Horowitz Freedom Center: $15,000
- DonorsTrust: $100,000
- Emily Catherine Fedorko Foundation: $2,500
- Encounter Books: $150,000
- Environmental Resource Center: $1,000
- Federalist Society: $190,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $100,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $200,000
- Foundation to Restore Accountability: $200,000
- Free to Choose Network: $15,000
- Freedomworks Foundation: $100,000
- Friends of ICSEP: $20,000
- Furman University: $50,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $250,000
- Georgetown University Law Center: $137,000
- Gilder Lehrman Institute: $5,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $150,000
- Graduate School Foundation-CUNY: $250,000
- Heritage Foundation: $150,000
- Hillsdale College: $50,000
- Hospital for Special Surgery: $10,000
- Independent Women's Forum: $25,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $225,000
- Institute for Justice: $250,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $150,000
- Jack Miller Center: $175,000
- Jewish Review of Books: $2,000
- Jimmy Lee Scholarship Fund: $5,000
- John Ashbrook Center: $100,000
- John Locke Foundation: $34,500
- Judicial Watch: $50,000
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation: $1,000
- Kenyon College: $240,000
- King's College: $100,000
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: $5,520
- Lynne Cohen Foundation: $5,000
- Manhattan Institute: $993,671
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000
- Media Research Center: $10,000
- Mercatus Center: $300,000
- Merwin Conservancy: $250
- Miami City Ballet: $5,000
- Miami University: $465,000
- Miami University Art Museum: $556,460
- Miami University Foundation: $100,000
- Museum of Modern Art: $1,287
- New Civil Liberties Alliance: $333,333
- New York Historical Society: $11,300
- New York Philharmonic: $14,054
- New York University: $353,000
- NIAF 1860: $25,000
- NYU School of Medicine: $25,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $150,000
- Palm Beach Civic Association: $1,250
- Patricia Blanco Animal Foundation: $250
- Paws for Purple Hearts: $1,000
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $500
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000
- Princeton University: $160,000
- Property and Environment Research Center: $100,000
- Purdue University: $145,000
- Reagan Foundation: $300
- Real Clear Foundation: $100,000
- Rhodes College: $75,000
- Ryan Center: $100,000
- Salt Marsh Opera: $500
- Sister Servants of the Eternal World: $1,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $15,000
- Socrates Sculpture Park: $40,000
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: $5,000
- St. Luke's Wood River Foundation: $5,000
- State Policy Network: $368,600
- Storm King Art Center: $10,000
- Sun Valley Center: $750
- Sun Valley Summer Symphony: $8,900
- Sun Valley Writers Conference: $11,200
- Texas Tech Foundation: $25,000
- The New Criterion: $25,000
- William F. Buckley, Jr. Program: $50,000
- Town of Palm Peach United Way: $1,000
- Turning Point USA: $100,000
- UCSF Foundation: $10,000
- UM Frost School of Music: $5,000
- United Way of Riwesterly: $1,000
- University of Arizona Foundation: $225,000
- University of California Law School: $275,000
- University of Chicago: $100,000
- University of Montana: $50,000
- University of Notre Dame: $100,000
- University of Pennsylvania: $100,000
- University of Richmond: $100,000
- University of Texas: $100,000
- University of Virginia College Foundation: $100,000
- Utah State University: $80,000
- Wake Forest University: $320,000
- Watch Hill Chapel Society: $1,000
- Wellesley College: $105,000
- West Virginia University Foundation: $100,000
- Westerly Hospital Foundation: $5,000
- Westerly Library and Wilcox Park: $200
- World Childhood Foundation: $1,000
- Yale University: $100,000
- Yankee Institute for Public Policy: $25,000
2016
- Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government: $125,000
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $150,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $50,000
- Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $150
- American Transparency: $325,000
- Atlas Network: $24,000
- Bath & Tennis Club Historic Building Preservation Foundation: $7,000
- Beta Theta Pi Foundation: $1,000
- Boston College: $92,000
- Brown University: $200,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $170,000
- Carnegie Hall Society: $25,000
- Cato Institute: $20,000
- Chapman University: $155,186
- Chop: $10,000
- Chorus of Westerly: $250
- Christopher Newport University: $125,000
- Citizens against Government Waste: $1,000
- City College 21st Century Foundation: $20,000
- City Lore: $50,000
- Clemson University Foundation: $165,000
- CO2 Coalition: $50,000
- Collegiate Network: $150,000
- Dartmouth College: $125,000
- DonorsTrust: $70,000
- Duke University: $162,500
- Emily Catherine Fedorko Foundation: $2,000
- Encounter Books: $150,000
- Environmental Resource Center: $1,000
- Ethics and Public Policy Center: $25,000
- Federalist Society: $110,000
- Foundation for Constitutional Government: $200,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $110,000
- Foundation to Restore Accountability: $200,000
- Freedom Partners Institute: $500,000
- Friends of Nathaniel Witherell: $5,000
- Furman University: $50,000
- George Mason University Foundation: $200,000
- Georgetown University: $100,000
- Goldwater Institute: $50,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $150,000
- Graduate School Foundation-CUNY: $250,000
- Gureghian Charitable Foundation: $40,000
- Heritage Foundation: $100,000
- Higher Ground Sun Valley: $24,750
- Hospital for Special Surgery: $10,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $175,000
- Institute for Justice: $200,000
- Invest in Education Foundation: $100,000
- Jack Miller Center: $100,000
- John Locke Foundation: $34,500
- Johns Hopkins University: $15,000
- Judicial Watch: $25,000
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation: $1,000
- Kenyon College: $250,000
- King's College: $100,000
- Lee Pesky Learning Center: $1,000
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: $5,520
- Manhattan Institute: $1,054,186
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000
- Media Research Center: $10,000
- Mercatus Center: $150,000
- Miami University Foundation: $205,000
- Museum of Modern Art: $986
- National Review Institute: $110,000
- New England Baptist Hospital: $15,000
- New York Historical Society: $11,300
- New York Philharmonic: $15,631
- New York University: $264,600
- NYU Lagone Medical Center: $20,000
- Opera on Tap: $5,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $150,000
- Patricia Blanco Animal Foundation: $100
- Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $500
- Pop Center for Higher Education Policy: $30,000
- Pratt Institute Legends: $50,000
- Property and Environment Research Center: $100,000
- Purdue University: $145,000
- Reagan Foundation: $300
- Real Clear Foundation: $100,000
- Rhodes College: $75,000
- Roman Catholic High School: $14,815
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: $300
- Ryan Foundation: $100,000
- Salt Marsh Opera Company: $500
- Socrates Sculpture Park: $40,000
- State Policy Network: $75,000
- Stonington Land Trust: $1,000
- Storm King Art Center: $10,000
- Student Free Press Association: $50,000
- Sun Valley Center: $750
- Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation: $500
- Sun Valley Summer Symphony: $8,900
- Sun Valley Writers Conference: $11,200
- Tax Foundation: $30,000
- Texas Tech Foundation: $25,000
- The New Criterion: $15,000
- Town of Palm Beach United Way: $1,000
- Trustees of Princeton University: $150,000
- Turning Point USA: $100,000
- US Navy Memorial: $200
- University of California- Law School: $275,000
- University of Chicago: $100,000
- University of Montana: $50,000
- University of Notre Dame: $100,000
- University of Richmond: $100,000
- University of Texas: $100,000
- University of Virginia: $100,000
- Utah State University: $80,000
- Wake Forest University: $320,000
- Watch Hill Library Improvement: $100
- Wellesley College: $105,000
- Westerly Hospital Foundation: $5,000
- Westerly Revolving Fund: $10,000
- William F. Buckley, Jr. Program: $50,000
- Yankee Institute for Public Policy: $50,000
Core Financials
2023[7]
- Total revenue: $18,355,087
- Total expenses: $9,383,740
- Net assets: $28,282,354
2022[8]
- Total revenue: $8,881,234
- Total expenses: $10,415,355
- Net assets: $15,245,274
2021[9]
- Total revenue: $13,254,800
- Total expenses: $15,591,798
- Net assets: $35,370,958
2020[10]
- Total revenue: $13,034,513
- Total expenses: $14,609,765
- Net assets: $32,658,745
2019[11]
- Total revenue: $18,397,811
- Total expenses: $15,090,287
- Net assets: $24,927,666
2018[12]
- Total revenue: $15,993,607
- Total expenses: $14,802,235
- Net assets: $19,101,349
2017[13]
- Total revenue: $206,205
- Total expenses: $13,981,559
- Net assets: $16,912,912
2016[14]
- Total revenue: $21,876,624
- Total expenses: $11,302,934
- Net assets: $26,240,247
2015[15]
- Total revenue: $0
- Total expenses: $0
- Net assets: $1,244
Personnel
Directors and Trustees
As of December 2023:[7]
- Thomas W. Smith, President and chairman
- Lori Smith Curley, Trustee
- Diane G. Smith, Vice President and trustee
- James Piereson, Trustee and director
- Victoria McKenzie, Trustee
- Thomas McWilliams, Trustee
- Randall Giberd, Trustee
Contact Information
Employer Identification Number (EIN): 47-3862135
Thomas W. Smith Foundation
2200 Butts Road
NO. 320
Boca Raton, FL 33431
- Phone: (561) 314-0800
Articles and Resources
IRS 990 Filings
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Articles
- Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria, The obscure foundation funding 'Critical Race Theory' hysteria, "Popular Information", July 13, 2021.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria, The obscure foundation funding 'Critical Race Theory' hysteria, "Popular Information" July 13, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patricia Cohen, Conservatives Try New tack on Campuses, "The New York Times", 2008.
- ↑ David Armiak, State Policy Network and Affiliates Raises $152 Million Annually to Push Right-Wing Policies, ExposedbyCMD, September 30, 2022.
- ↑ Rebekah Wilce, Center for Media and Democracy, EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government, organizational report, November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Jane Mayer, Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?, The New Yorker, November 15, 2013.
- ↑ Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax, The Guardian, December 5, 2013.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2023, "TWS Foundation", May 13, 2024.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2022, "TWS Foundation", August 1, 2023.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2021, "TWS Foundation", May 17, 2023.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2020, "TWS Foundation", May 18, 2021.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2019, "TWS Foundation", May 18, 2020.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2018, "TWS Foundation", June 13, 2019.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2017, "TWS Foundation", December 17, 2018.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2016, "TWS Foundation", May 11, 2017.
- ↑ Thomas W. Smith Foundation, IRS 990 2015, "TWS Foundation", November 1, 2016.
