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Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$447k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
61
Grants FY2025
60
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
60 to 75
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$6.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 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.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving59$398k2%
FY202460$273k0%
FY202364$339k0%
FY202267$328k7%
FY202174$344k8%
FY202075$378kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$957kPhilanthropy$464kEducation$351kFood & Nutrition$122kHealth$111kRecreation & Sports$108kEnvironment$88kCivil Rights$80kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 65 grantees
All grantees of Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$140,00060%
Falmouth Academy Inc$140,00041%
Wnet$100,00050%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$100,00060%
New York Public Radio$80,00060%
New York Shakespeare Festival$70,00060%
The New York Times Communities Fund$60,00060%
The Carnegie Hall Society Inc$57,5006n/a
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$50,00020%
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc$50,00030%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$47,00060%
Falmouth Service Center Inc$46,00061%
Vassar College$45,00060%
Oberlin College$40,00060%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$40,00040%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$36,00060%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$35,00060%
The Salzburg Festival Society Inc$35,00042%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$31,50060%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$30,00060%
Museum of Modern Art$30,00060%
City Harvest Inc$28,50060%
Sierra Club Foundation$27,50060%
Woods Hole Public Library$25,00051%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$25,00050%
Food for Free Committee Inc$21,00050%
The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc$20,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$18,50060%
The Salvation Army$18,5006n/a
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$17,00060%
Young Concert Artists Inc$16,00060%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$16,00060%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc$15,50060%
Cape Cod Theatre Project Inc$14,00053%
Historic Highfield Inc$11,50060%
American Friends Service Committee$11,5006n/a
National Park Foundation$10,00020%
National Wildlife Federation$10,00040%
WGBH Educational Foundation$10,00010%
Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc$10,00060%
New York City Ballet Inc$9,00060%
Opera Lafayette$8,50040%
The Doe Fund Inc$8,00060%
Church of the Resurrection$7,5006n/a
Citymeals-On-Wheels$7,50020%
Friends of Hopewell Quarry$7,00041%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$6,00060%
Marine Biological Laboratory$6,00060%
New York Historical Society$6,00060%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$6,00060%
Compassion & Choices$6,00060%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$6,00060%
Woods Hole Community Association Inc$6,00061%
Church of the Messiah$5,0005n/a
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc$5,00010%
The College Light Opera Company Inc$4,50030%
The Symphony Space Inc$4,00040%
Friends of Nobska Light Inc$3,50020%
Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust Inc$3,00021%
Steppingstone Foundation Inc$3,00020%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Buzzards Bay Coalition$2,00020%
Whitney Museum of American Art$2,00020%
Woods Hole Foundation Inc$2,00021%
Greenpeace Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($344k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFalmouth Academy Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWnet: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Times Communities Fund: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $47,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFalmouth Service Center Inc: $46,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVassar College: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salzburg Festival Society Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $31,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWoods Hole Public Library: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood for Free Committee Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe 300 Committee Land Trust Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Concert Artists Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Theatre Club Inc: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCape Cod Theatre Project Inc: $14,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHistoric Highfield Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Center of Cape Cod Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Lafayette: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Hopewell Quarry: $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Biological Laboratory: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 60.

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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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · George H Lusk Trust · Friendship Fund Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Lovell Charitable Foundation · Harken Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc · The Baltimore Family Fund · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Rochester Area Community 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.

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About Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006

How much does Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 give?
Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 reported 61 grants totaling $446,814 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 75 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Philanthropy (19%), Education (14%).
Who are Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ($140k), Falmouth Academy Inc ($140k), Wnet ($100k).
Does Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Stanley W Watson Foundation, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 based?
Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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