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John Smart was a donor to the Smart Family Foundation trust established in 1951 in IL, with assets of over $151 million in 2002. The foundation is primarily interested in education projects and has, in particular, been focusing on projects that affect primary and secondary school children. Smart also supported Jewish philanthropy and a number of projects in Israel. It furnishes seed money and program-related investments/loans. Quoted from The Foundation Directory, 2005 Edition. Smart Family Foundation The Smart Family Foundation is based on the success of the business enterprises of David and Alfred Smart. The Smarts had originally been an immigrant family who had come to the United States from Russia and settled in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1900, the family moved to Chicago and, like many other struggling newcomers, settled on the West Side in a blue-collar neighborhood. David and Alfred built a highly successful magazine publishing business starting in the 1930’s. (This included Esquire Magazine). In an effort to use their success for philanthropic ends, the Smart Foundation was established in 1951.After the deaths of Alfred and David, Esquire Inc., began a period of expansion and diversification under the leadership of John Smart and Abe Blinder. John Smart along with his wife, Gwen Meyerson Smart, also born to immigrant parents in the Midwest, were a dynamic combination. Since 2003, the Smart Family Foundation has generously supported the Buehler Center’s mission through annual gifts that have funded piot projects, provided integral bridge funding for larger projects as well as for the continued growth of our academic and public profile by supporting events such as the Smart Symposium.

New York Times John Smart, Publisher; And Philanthropist, 88 Published: December 1, 1993 John Smart, a retired New York publisher, philanthropist and former chairman of Esquire Inc., died on Monday at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. A resident of Greenwich, he was 88. The cause was complications following a stroke, his family said. In recent years Mr. Smart devoted much of his time to the philanthropic activities of the Smart Family Foundation, based in Greenwich. The foundation had assets of close to $50 million in 1990. It chiefly supports education, focusing on projects that aid primary and secondary schoolchildren. Mr. Smart also supported Jewish philanthropy and a number of projects in Israel. Mr. Smart and his two older brothers, David and Alfred, founded Apparel Arts, a trade publication, in 1931. That was followed two years later by Esquire magazine. After his brothers died in the early 1950's, Mr. Smart took charge of the organization. He stabilized Esquire and converted Apparel Arts into the more successful Gentlemen's Quarterly. The parent company was Esquire, Inc., which also produced educational materials and textbooks. Esquire, Inc. sold Gentlemen's Quarterly and Esquire magazine in the late 1970's and was itself acquired by Gulf and Western in 1983. Mr. Smart's wife, Gwen, died several years ago. He is survived by three daughters, Mary Smart Churba of New Rochelle, N.Y., Nancy Smart of Manhattan, and Ellen Smart Oswald of Burlingame, Calif; a son, Raymond L., of Greenwich, and five grandchildren. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/01/obituaries/john-smart-publisher-and-philanthropist-88.html