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Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation at a glance

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Lucille Ellis Simon 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.

$516k
Granted FY2024still arriving
90
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$382kHealth$330kInternational$301kEducation$180kCivil Rights$148kSocial Science$76kAnimals$74kHuman Services$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k80 grants · $272k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$3,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRAZIL FOUNDATION$70,000
MUSEUM ASSOCIATES - LACMA$50,000
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$20,000
RAND CORPORATION$18,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$16,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$15,000
SHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC$10,000
THE MUSIC CENTER$10,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (WHC)$10,000
PBS FOUNDATION$8,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND INC$8,000
THE UCLA - CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES$8,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$7,500
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $10k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $5k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $3k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $3k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $2k → 14%WELLNEST EMOTIONAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $3k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $16k → 14%WELLNEST EMOTIONAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $3k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $15k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
NY
MA
OH
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 126 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

126 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
33

Total granted

$1.5M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+52%

Still filing today

48%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BF
    BRAZIL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $132k · revenue +10%
  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2023–2024 · $48k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MA
    Museum Associates - LACMA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • MA
    Museum Associates - LACMA, After School Program
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • HS
    Harvard-Westlake School
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…

Civil Rights
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
9
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
10
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
11
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
12
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

California latinas for reproductive justice (clrj) is a statewide organization committed to honoring the experiences of latinas to uphold our dignity, our bodies, sexuality, and families. we build latinas' power and cultivate leadership…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 172 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/75
Grantees still filing
48/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Brazil Foundation - Institute for the Blind, Bahia: $60,000 · OtherMuseum Associates - LACMA: $50,000 · OtherMuseum Associates - LACMA, After School Program: $50,000 · Other+125 more: $996,500 · Other+125 moreBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $132,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUNDAT…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $48,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $16,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONA…SEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,000 · InternationalNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC: $10,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 · International+1 more: $4,000 · InternationalMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $15,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $11,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness: $6,000 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $15,000 · HealthAMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICE A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $14,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $11,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · HealthCenter for Restorative Justice Works: $6,000 · HealthNAMI National: $6,000 · HealthCLAREMATRIX: $5,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR MYELOMA & BONE CANCER RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthAHEAD WITH HORSES INC: $3,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $40,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsCONFLUENCE RISING: $3,000 · Civil RightsDefenders of Wildlife: $30,000 · AnimalsHOWLING FOR WOLVES: $6,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $6,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $5,000 · AnimalsGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · AnimalsDOLPHIN COMMUNICATION PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Animals
Other$1,156,500International$230,000Arts & Culture$142,000Human Services$89,000Health$76,500Civil Rights$67,000Animals$56,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $132,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICE A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Against Gun Violence: $7,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOWLING FOR WOLVES: $6,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Restorative Justice Works: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI National: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetExtraordinary Families: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTTABLE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget350ORG: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 BRAZIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds AMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICE A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗

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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…California Community …S Mark Taper Foundati…The Ahmanson Foundati…QueensCareKaiser Foundation Hos…The California Wellne…Jewish Community Foun…The Green FoundationShelter Partnership I…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA33.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · QueensCare · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Green Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 172 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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