Virginia · Private foundation
Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation
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.
- $232k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,846
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $511k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 35 | $217k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $151k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $161k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $101k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $70k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $104k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $45k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $34k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gladney Center for Adoption | $117,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Center for Alexandria's Children | $73,694 | 8 | 3% |
| National Council for Adoption | $47,216 | 7 | 1% |
| The Campagna Center Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Child and Family Network Centers Inc | $30,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of the Guest House Inc | $28,065 | 8 | 1% |
| Community Lodgings Inc | $23,110 | 8 | 1% |
| Hopkins House a Center for Children and Their Families | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Carpenter's Shelter Inc | $19,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tall Ship Providence Foundation | $16,172 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($307k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Act for Alexandria · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc · Ivakota Assoc Inc · The Maple Tree Fund · Kiwanis Foundation of Alexandria VA Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Peterson Family Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation with peer funders
About Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation
- How much does Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation give?
- Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $232,274 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Education (16%), Crime & Legal (9%).
- Who are Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Gladney Center for Adoption ($118k), The Center for Alexandria's Children ($74k), National Council for Adoption ($47k).
- Does Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation 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 Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Act for Alexandria, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation based?
- Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation is based in VA.
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