Florida · Private foundation
Leon J Simkins Charitable 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $2.5M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $703k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $224k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $208k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $102k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $316k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $363k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $225k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walker Art Center | $2,400,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $435,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc | $144,670 | 5 | 1% |
| Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc | $139,850 | 4 | 0% |
| Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation | $113,531 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $96,333 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad House on Wheels | $68,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Haleakala Inc | $65,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Temple Beth Sholom | $55,550 | 8 | n/a |
| Martin Luther King Economic Dev | $50,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($413k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: The Miami Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Fairholme Foundation · Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation C/O Richard Kohan Afo LLC · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Russell & Ronalee Galbut Family Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Erica and Mark Groussman Foundation Inc · The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation
- How much does Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation give?
- Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $2,468,529 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Arts & Culture (33%), Health (4%).
- Who are Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Walker Art Center ($2.4M), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($435k), Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc ($145k).
- Does Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leon J Simkins Charitable 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 Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Miami Foundation Inc, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc, The Batchelor Foundation Inc.
- Where is Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation based?
- Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation is based in FL.
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