· Private foundation
Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN INC | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS FOREVER HOME | $5,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $4,691 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES CAROLINAS | $4,000 |
| ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| MALARIA CONSORTIUM US | $3,000 |
| GOSHEN VALLEY BOYS RANCH | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BREAD RIOT | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +33%
- RHROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +78%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +365%
Funded once
- LILUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- RMROWAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- BTBELL TOWER GREEN INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -83%
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.
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
A collaborative network that increases access and improves health outcomes for safety net populations in western north carolina
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
To provide comprehensive primary health care and preventative health services to underserved communities. to serve individuals regardless of their ability to pay.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
The community development corporation will create equitable and accessible whole-person solutions for every resident of north carolina through community collaboration and investment made possible by the community development corporation.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 78 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds SMART START ROWAN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MISSION OF CHINA GROVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BREAD RIOT ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · Rowan County United Way Inc · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Bernheim Foundation Inc · Novant Health Inc · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Clifford a & Lillian C Peeler Foundation Inc · The Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the Smith Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
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