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Cora & Murray Simpson Family Fund Inc at a glance

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Cora & Murray Simpson Family Fund Inc

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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$138kReligion$116kEducation$109kHuman Services$47kHealth$35kRecreation & Sports$19kYouth Development$13kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$600
Median grant
7
States reached
$938k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS CHURCH$20,000
CURE PSP$5,000
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY$5,000
NAPS$1,000
NORTHUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY$750
RHHT$600
KAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
WETA$500
GLEN ECHO FIRE DEPARTMENT$500
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HAVEN SHELTER & SERVICES INC: $500 → 16%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE: $500 → 8%THE HAVEN SHELTER & SERVICES INC: $500 → 16%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE: $500 → 8%HAVEN SHELTER & SERVICES INC: $500 → 16%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE: $500 → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $1k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $1k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $600 → 8%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

NH
NY
MA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$430k · 48 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
42

Total granted

$430k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+37%

Still filing today

46%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SH
    STRATFORD HALL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +88%
  • MF
    MONTPELIER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +165%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • LU
    LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -4%
  • VA
    VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION (UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA)
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • NC
    NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +62%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
5
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy; the most unlike its peers is Curepsp Inc. 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

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL SAINTS CHURCH: $113,175 · OtherALL SAINTS CHURCHSALVATION ARMY: $33,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $24,000 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETYGRACE EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $13,500 · OtherPRINCETON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS: $10,500 · Other+59 more: $105,910 · Other+59 moreSTRATFORD HALL: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSTRATFORD HALLColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $31,500 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg Fou…MONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOUNDATIONTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATI…RICE'S HOTELHUGHLETT'S TAVERN FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureRICE'S HOTELHUGHLETT'S TA…+5 more: $6,700 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationLONGWOOD UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $16,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RI…LANDON SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationLANDON SCHOOLBosque School: $10,000 · EducationBosque SchoolThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,685 · EducationThe Trustees of …NORTHUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 · EducationNORTHUMBERLAND P…+3 more: $1,700 · EducationLeadership Institute: $6,500 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Public BenefitANIMAL ALLIES INC: $7,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC: $750 · AnimalsLittle Falls Village Corporation: $2,800 · Human ServicesTHE HAVEN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesCUREPSP INC: $5,000 · HealthBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Other$300,585Arts & Culture$115,200Education$74,385Public Benefit$9,500Animals$8,250Human Services$5,800Health$5,600

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 budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBosque School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL ALLIES INC: $7,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetRICE'S HOTELHUGHLETT'S TAVERN FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLeadership Institute: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,685 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Falls Village Corporation: $2,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC: $2,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAVEN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNature Forward: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSWAY COMMUNITY INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica's Future Foundation: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBIA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO IN STATION 70: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds LANDON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Bosque School ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL ALLIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds RICE'S HOTELHUGHLETT'S TAVERN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Little Falls Village Corporation ↗
  • Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Clark-Winchcole Found…T Rowe Price Program …The Community Foundat…Greater Washington Co…Posner-Wallace Founda…Ibm International Fou…The Morris and Gwendo…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Shell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Clark-Winchcole FoundationMD19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation

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 Cora & Murray Simpson Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cora & Murray Simpson Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Co in Station 70: 36% of income from government
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 93 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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