How much does Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation give?

Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $91,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Philanthropy (18%), Health (17%).

Who are Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Hebrew Free Loan Association ($40k), The Independence Fund Inc ($25k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($10k).

Does Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elwood and Carol 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 Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Grosfeld Foundation, The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation.

Where is Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation based?

Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation is based in MI.

Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation

Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Elwood and Carol Simon Family 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.

$91k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$24k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$94kPhilanthropy$72kHealth$66kInternational$59kHuman Services$51kArts & Culture$16kHousing & Shelter$15kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k30 grants · $52k
$10k–50k2 grants · $39k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$432k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION	$24,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION	$8,000
THE INDEPENDENCE FUND	$5,000
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$3,000
THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC	$2,000
SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC	$2,000
THE PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION	$2,000
INJURED MARINE SEMPER FI FUND	$2,000
INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND	$2,000
YAD EZRA	$2,000
THE NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION	$2,000
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER	$2,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$2,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 50%.

Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$364k · 34 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$364k

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+137%

Still filing today

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

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The Independence Fund Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +9%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +78%
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PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +55%

Funded once

ZT
ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECHgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +137%
SO
Save Our Allies
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -43%
AI
AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION
one grant, 2023 · $2k

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.

Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion

American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion

Michael Levin Lone Soldier Foundation Inc

To raise awareness and strengthen commitment to lone soldiers by promoting the following core initiatives:i.working in partnership with individuals and organizations throughout the united states to establish the michael levin lone soldier…

International

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Robinson Tennis Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

25/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$232,000Philanthropy$74,500Public Benefit$25,000Health$24,000Arts & Culture$18,000Housing & Shelter$13,750Human Services$10,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Michigan Health Endowment FundMI17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Grosfeld Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Robt & Gail Katz Family Foundation · Hs Foundation · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · David Kahan Family 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 Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elwood and Carol Simon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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