New York · Private foundation
Joseph T and Helen M Simpson 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.
- $290k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2025
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 85 | $268k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 83 | $259k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $249k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $231k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $298k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 72 | $224k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $209k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $191k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope Ministries Inc | $95,666 | 9 | 0% |
| Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc | $72,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Joseph T Simpson Public Library | $62,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Camp Hebron Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sonshine Ministries | $54,500 | 7 | 21% |
| Veterans Outreach of Pennsylvania | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Pinnacle Health Auxiliary | $49,000 | 8 | 12% |
| The Nativity School of Harrisburg | $42,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Capital Area School for the Arts Charter School | $38,500 | 9 | 0% |
| PA Dream House Inc | $38,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($812k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph T and Helen M Simpson 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.
Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Hall Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Franklin H and Ruth L Wells Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation with peer funders
About Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation
- How much does Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation give?
- Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $289,983 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (11%).
- Who are Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Hope Ministries Inc ($96k), Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc ($72k), Joseph T Simpson Public Library ($63k).
- Does Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph T and Helen M Simpson 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 Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, United Way of the Capital Region, John Crain Kunkel Foundation.
- Where is Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation based?
- Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation is based in NY.
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