New York · Private foundation
David J Simon 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.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations David J Simon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 13 | $78k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $47k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $31k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $42k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $37k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $54k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $47k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Gate School Inc | $107,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Fund for the Aged Inc | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Solving Kids' Cancer Inc | $33,500 | 3 | 1% |
| The Help USA Fund Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Home Lifecare | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Rogosin Institute Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Brazil Foundation | $5,182 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David J Simon 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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About David J Simon Foundation
- How much does David J Simon Foundation give?
- David J Simon Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $78,182 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does David J Simon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (20%), Human Services (19%).
- Who are David J Simon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Gate School Inc ($107k), Fund for the Aged Inc ($52k), Solving Kids' Cancer Inc ($34k).
- Does David J Simon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David J Simon 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 David J Simon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Network for Good.
- Where is David J Simon Foundation based?
- David J Simon Foundation is based in NY.
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