· Private foundation
Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN & FAMILY NETWORK CENTER | $17,030 |
| GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION | $15,000 |
| ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA | $11,072 |
| CENTER FOR ALEXANDRIA'S CHILDREN | $10,483 |
| CAMPAGNA CENTER | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $6,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION | $5,206 |
| HOMEWARD TRAILS ADOPTION CENTER | $5,150 |
| TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE FDN | $5,100 |
| CARPENTERS SHELTER | $5,000 |
| VELOCITY BICYCLE COOPERATIVE | $5,000 |
| INOVA ALEXANDRIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEALTHY PEOPLE | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY LODGING | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- TGTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ALEXANDRIA'S CHILDREN7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +43%
- TCTHE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -31%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +138%
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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.
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Alexandria's Children and the most unlike its peers is Mountain States Children's Home. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 109 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 THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ALEXANDRIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds National Council for Adoption ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS HOUSE A CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Lodgings Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds Tall Ship Providence Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA TUTORING CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League of Alexandria ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FREE THE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Seaport Foundation ↗
- Who funds Alices Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER CORE 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: 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
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 Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation 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.
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
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.