{"id":2215752,"date":"2024-04-08T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-and-jada-pinkett-smiths-charity-faces-83-decline-in-donations-following-oscars-slap-rumored-to-be-closing-soon-report\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:08:18","slug":"will-and-jada-pinkett-smiths-charity-faces-83-decline-in-donations-following-oscars-slap-rumored-to-be-closing-soon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-and-jada-pinkett-smiths-charity-faces-83-decline-in-donations-following-oscars-slap-rumored-to-be-closing-soon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Will and Jada Pinkett Smith&#8217;s charity experiences an 83% drop in donations post Oscars incident, reportedly facing imminent closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-and-jada-pinkett-smiths-charity-faces-83-decline-in-donations-following-oscars-slap-rumored-to-be-closing-soon-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2215752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In light of the highly publicized \u2064Oscars incident involving Will and\u200c Jada \u200bPinkett Smith, their foundation faced a drastic decline in donations. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-cardinal-sin-at-stanford-university\/\" title=\"A Cardinal Sin at Stanford University\">couple established<\/a> the \u2064Will And Jada Smith Family Foundation in\u200d 1996 for causes like \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/months-after-closing-beaches-newsom-smugly-suggests-people-hit-the-sand-for-their-mental-health\/\" title=\"Months After Closing Beaches, Newsom Smugly Suggests People Hit the Sand for Their Mental Health\">mental health<\/a>, wellness, and arts education. However, donations plummeted after the Oscars incident\u200c where Will slapped Chris Rock. This incident significantly impacted the\u200d foundation&#8217;s funding.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jada-pinkett-smith\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jada Pinkett Smith<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s charity faced a steep decline in donations following the infamous slapping incident at the 2022 Oscars, per a new Variety <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/will-jada-pinkett-smith-charity-to-close-chris-rock-slap-1235947358\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The famous <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">couple<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  created the Will And Jada Smith Family Foundation in 1996 as a place to advocate for issues they cared about such as mental health, wellness, arts education, and sustainability, the outlet noted. But tax records indicate that donations plummeted after the 94th Academy Awards ceremony when Will stormed onto the stage and slapped event host Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about Jada\u2019s bald head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incident has had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/young-americans-must-lead-the-way-in-opposing-additional-covid-shutdowns\/\" title=\"Young Americans Must Lead The Way In Opposing Additional COVID Shutdowns\">long-lasting effects<\/a> on the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/will-smith\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Men In Black<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d star, who has since issued numerous public apologies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One apparent outcome was the decreased <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/charity\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">donation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  amounts to the Will And Jada Smith Family Foundation. Per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/954607014\/202241749349100229\/full\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  available on ProPublica, foundation revenue was $1,760,000 in 2020 and $2,138,660 in 2021. After the slap, filings for 2022 showed just $365,870 in donations, representing a drop of 83% compared to the previous year. Variety noted that this decline was due in part to the withdrawal of major contributions from American Airlines and CAA, which had donated $76,160 and $100,000 in 2021 respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An unnamed source allegedly told the outlet that the Smiths were winding down the charity with the intention of shutting it down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Smiths made headlines last year when Jada revealed they weren\u2019t technically together anymore. The actress made the revelation in October 2023 that she and Will have been separated since 2016 despite presenting as a united front, as The Daily Wire previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jada-pinkett-smith-says-she-and-will-smith-have-been-separated-since-2016\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She told interviewer Hoda Kotb during an NBC News interview at the time, \u201cWhy [the relationship] fractured\u2026 that\u2019s a lot of things. By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through \u2026 whatever,\u201d the celeb said of why they never officially divorced. \u201cI just haven\u2019t been able to break that promise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fans had previously been confused about Jada admitting to having a romantic relationship with another man while married to Will in 2020, which she discussed during an episode of her \u201cRed Table Talk\u201d series. This led to rumors that the Smiths were in an open marriage, which they didn\u2019t refute until years later when Jada admitted they were actually separated at the time of her \u201centanglement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the 2022 Oscars incident, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith&#8217;s charity saw a significant drop in donations, leading to concerns over its future. The Will And Jada Smith Family Foundation, established in 1996 by the couple, aims to support causes close to their hearts, including mental health advocacy, as reported by Variety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2215753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Will-Smith-Jada-Pinkett-Smith-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Will-Smith-Jada-Pinkett-Smith-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}