· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $330,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $220,000 |
| ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY | $192,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $150,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE | $110,000 |
| BRADDOCK CARNEGIE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| DORMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $100,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $70,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER INC | $40,000 |
| ANN & ROB H LURIE CHDRNS HSPTL OF CHICAG | $20,000 |
| YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE | $20,000 |
| PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITE | $20,000 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUN | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +26%- CMCarnegie Mellon University6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +35%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE6× · 2020–2025 · $830k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- BHBAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -28%
- COCONVENTION OF P E CHURCH OF THE DIOCESEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BBCLAone grant, 2024 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Surfing for Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Dormont Public Library ↗
- Who funds BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLOSA CHILDREN'S DENTAL CENTER OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SURFING FOR HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARAYAH CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization B K Simon Family Charitable Fdn-Tr funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.