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Bill Simpson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$613k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$400kAnimals$370kYouth Development$247kHealth$202kRecreation & Sports$178kEnvironment$175kHuman Services$123kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $339k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
$14,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Guide Dogs of the Desert$120,000
Gamers Outreach Foundation$75,000
Carving the Future$40,000
Independent Picture House$40,000
Reef Relief Inc$30,000
Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB)$25,000
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc$25,000
Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding$20,000
The Traveling Gnomes$20,000
Vida Verde Nature Education$20,000
Project ANGEL of Hendricks County$15,000
FIDO Inc aka Friends of Indianapolis Dogs Outside$15,000
Rock Steady Boxing of Brownsburg Inc$15,000
Bullies 2 the Rescue$15,000
Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing Inc$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Challenge Aspen: $8k → 6%Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding: $20k → 5%Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding Association: $15k → 5%Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding Association: $10k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
NC
SC
HI
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 17 repeat orgs$520k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
30

Total granted

$1.3M
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+8%

Still filing today

94%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GO
    GAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $145k · revenue +76%
  • CT
    CARVING THE FUTURE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +186%
  • BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • WO
    WINGS OF EAGLES RANCH
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -37%
  • CH
    CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Freedom Ride Rescue

Freedom ride rescue is committed to saving dogs from overcrowded shelters and placing them in loving foster homes until they find their forever families. our mission is to create a no-kill state by rehabilitating and rehoming dogs while…

Animals
2
Carolina Basset Hound Rescue Inc

The mission of Carolina Basset Hound Rescue is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome unwanted basset hounds in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Animals
3
Badass Animal Rescue Inc

Badass Animal Rescue is an animal welfare organization that rescues abused and abandoned dogs that are in danger of imminent death at rural high kill shelters in the American South and United States Virgin Islands. The organization…

Animals
4
Live Free Animal Rescue

To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.

Animals
5
Dorchester Paws

Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Animals
6
Race for the Rescues

Race for the rescues is a unique, 501(c)3 non-profit, no-kill organization dedicated to eliminating animal suffering and euthanasia. our mission is to unite animal welfare organizations to fight pet overpopulation and save as many animal…

Unclassified
7
Animal Dominion Rescue

Animal Dominion Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing cats and dogs worldwide, ensuring they find permanent, loving homes. The organization emphasizes direct support to rescuers on the ground, promoting animal welfare,…

Animals
8
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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9
Second Chance Pet Adoptions Inc

To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.

Animals
10
Black Ops Rescue

Transforming the lives of shelter pets and veterans through compassionate assessment, compatible adoptions, and ongoing support.

Animals
11
Blue Waters Dog Rescue

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping animals in need. Our focus is on rescuing and rehabilitating animals. We provide the full curriculum of care for each dog rescued, This includes: shelter, food, spaying & neutering,…

Animals
12
Rural Dog Rescue

Rural Dog Rescue saves the lives of high risk dogs in economically challenged shelters in rural areas of the country. Our mission is to save the dogs that are at greatest risk of euthanasia and are the most overlooked dogs in the shelter.…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pilots to the Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
31/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INCGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $200,000 · OtherGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERTGARDEN INC: $60,000 · OtherGARDEN INCJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $45,000 · Other+28 more: $313,000 · Other+28 moreCHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsCHESAPEAKE R…CARVING THE FUTURE: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsCARVING THE …Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated: $14,000 · Recreation & SportsCanal Dock B…Freedom Waters Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTETON ADAPTIVE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentBALD HEAD …Reef Relief Inc: $55,000 · EnvironmentReef Relie…VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentVIDA VERDE…REVERB INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentREVERB INCGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $144,500 · Youth DevelopmentGAMERS OU…DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentDO GREATE…WINGS OF EAGLES RANCH: $25,000 · HealthWINGS OF …CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthCROHN'S &…ROCK STEADY BOXING OF BROWNSBURG INC: $15,000 · HealthROCK STEA…The Paula Takacs Foundation For Sarcoma Research: $15,000 · HealthThe Paula…ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthATRIUM HE…Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $10,000 · HealthDilworth …EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · HealthEB RESEAR…CHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC: $7,500 · HealthInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $7,500 · HealthBEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 · HealthCharlotte Film Society: $90,000 · Arts & CultureDON GARLITS MUSEUM OF DRAG RACING: $35,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS 500 OLDTIMERS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $35,000 · AnimalsBULLIES 2 THE RESCUE: $25,000 · AnimalsHEAVEN AFTER HELL RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $10,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $7,500 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $7,500 · AnimalsFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $7,500 · AnimalsBILLIES BUDDIES: $5,000 · AnimalsASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,500 · Animals
Other$873,000Recreation & Sports$204,000Environment$165,000Youth Development$157,000Health$147,500Arts & Culture$135,000Animals$115,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $200,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $144,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCharlotte Film Society: $90,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC: $90,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetCARVING THE FUTURE: $80,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetReef Relief Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDON GARLITS MUSEUM OF DRAG RACING: $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBULLIES 2 THE RESCUE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWINGS OF EAGLES RANCH: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFIDO INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paula Takacs Foundation For Sarcoma Research: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDO GREATER FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRotary District 5000 Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHEAVEN AFTER HELL RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFreedom Waters Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTETON ADAPTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN COUNTY INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRADLEY AND NIKKI BOZEMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS 500 OLDTIMERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNITED STATES OF AMERICA SNOWBOARD AND FREESKI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJae Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREVERB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHALFWAY THERE RESCUE: $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBILLIES BUDDIES: $5,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF MONT CO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Lincoln Financial Fou…Christopher Reeve Fou…Lilly Endowment IncBaird Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…AbbVie FoundationNetwork for Good
Duke Energy FoundationNC15.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bill Simpson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill Simpson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated: 28% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Bill Simpson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bill Simpson Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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