· Private foundation
David E Simon & Jacqueline S Simon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of DAVID E SIMON & JACQUELINE S SIMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $630k
- $250k+7 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) | $2,000,000 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $1,200,000 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $815,518 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE | $750,000 |
| GEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHE | $500,000 |
| NER L'HOREINU INC | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (AIEF) | $250,000 |
| INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| YOUTH RENEWAL FUND | $150,000 |
| INDIANA INNOVATION COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL ZEDECK | $27,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM | $20,425 |
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 (FY19–23, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of David E Simon & Jacqueline S Simon Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- HMHorace Mann School6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +27%
- UOUniversity of Miami3× · 2021–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -15%
- T3THE 30 DAY FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -100%
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITYone grant, 2021 · $500k
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 weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Saks Fifth Avenue 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 121 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 Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds Simon Youth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NER L HOREINU INC ↗
- Who funds THE 30 DAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PAID IN FULL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER 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 Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
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 David E Simon & Jacqueline S Simon Charitable 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.