Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 11 | $152k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $140k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $162k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $152k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $127k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $145k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $145k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $101k | 43% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Valley Youth Network | $132,141 | 5 | 13% |
| Ohio Valley Health Center | $92,756 | 6 | 24% |
| Urban Mission Ministries Inc | $78,405 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way of Jefferson County | $65,700 | 5 | 6% |
| Old Fort Steuben Project Inc | $50,469 | 3 | 7% |
| Coleman Professional Services Inc | $41,510 | 4 | 0% |
| Valley Hospice Inc | $38,378 | 3 | 0% |
| Young Womens Christian Association | $33,015 | 3 | n/a |
| Steubenville Cultural Trust | $27,500 | 2 | 12% |
| Vagabond Missions | $26,563 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($439k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust · Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation · Steel Valley Charities · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · United Way of Jefferson County · Silver Trumpets Inc · Starvaggi Charities Inc · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust
- How much does Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust give?
- Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust reported 11 grants totaling $151,588 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (21%), Health (20%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ohio Valley Youth Network ($132k), Ohio Valley Health Center ($93k), Urban Mission Ministries Inc ($78k).
- Does Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024, Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc, Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust.
- Where is Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust based?
- Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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