Pennsylvania · Private foundation
B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $330,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.6M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,990,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,280,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Robert Morris University | $1,022,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $830,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $775,137 | 3 | 1% |
| Dormont Public Library | $490,000 | 6 | 43% |
| Media Research Center | $224,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh | $220,000 | 2 | 1% |
| French Hospital Medical Center Foundation | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc | $150,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr
- How much does B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr give?
- B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr reported 20 grants totaling $1,564,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Environment (8%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($2.0M), Carnegie Mellon University ($1.3M), Robert Morris University ($1.0M).
- Does B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr based?
- B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr is based in PA.
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