New York · Private foundation
Debra Simon Family 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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Debra Simon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $77k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $80k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $91k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $167k | 77% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $34k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $21k | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Wellness Institute Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Don Bosco Preparatory High School Inc | $26,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Careity Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lupus Research Alliance Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Comfort Zone Camp Inc | $3,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Global Empowerment Mission Inc | $2,025 | 2 | 0% |
| Pony Power Therapies Inc | $1,350 | 2 | 0% |
| We the Protesters Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Upper Saddle River PTO Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evolve Pink Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Wellness Institute Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Don Bosco Preparatory High School Inc | $26,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Careity Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lupus Research Alliance Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Comfort Zone Camp Inc | $3,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Global Empowerment Mission Inc | $2,025 | 2 | 0% |
| Pony Power Therapies Inc | $1,350 | 2 | 0% |
| We the Protesters Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Upper Saddle River PTO Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evolve Pink Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Manasquan First Aid Squad | $700 | 2 | 0% |
| Special Olympics New Jersey Inc | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Usra Coalition a Nj Nonprofit Corp | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Es Battle Buddies Inc | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Contact We Care Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($436k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Debra Simon Family 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.
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How this is measured
About Debra Simon Family Foundation
- How much does Debra Simon Family Foundation give?
- Debra Simon Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Debra Simon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (88%), Education (9%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are Debra Simon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Global Wellness Institute Inc ($135k), Don Bosco Preparatory High School Inc ($27k), Careity Foundation ($15k).
- Does Debra Simon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Debra Simon Family 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 Debra Simon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Debra Simon Family Foundation based?
- Debra Simon Family Foundation is based in NY.
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