· Private foundation
Mabel & Ellsworth Simmons Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of MABEL & ELLSWORTH SIMMONS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $367k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECHO | $55,600 |
| ELMIRA'S WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $28,620 |
| ECHO | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| A KIDS PLACE | $22,000 |
| MACDONALD TRAINING CENTER | $20,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB-RIVERVIEW | $17,000 |
| YOUR ABUNDANT LIFE | $15,400 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FORGOTTEN ANGELS | $15,000 |
| CARE | $15,000 |
| 1 VOICE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $11,600 |
| CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +131%- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue +36%
- CFCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RRRIVARD-SIMMONS ROTARY EVENT CENTERone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
To unlock the potential of at-risk children and families by providing compassionate and effective services that create opportunities for success.
To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…
Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.
Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
For over 150 years, st. vincent's services, inc. (d/b/a heartshare st. vincent's services) has been a symbol of hope, compassion, and strength for vulnerable and under-resourced communities in new york city. (see on schedule o)
Our mission is equipping all who touch the lives of children with what they need, so they can give children what they need by providing training to caregivers. When individuals, families and communities experience trauma that goes…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
To provide miami valley homeless and vulnerable youth with services that promote safety, stability and well-being.
Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is Warm Blanket Hugs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MACDONALD TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds A KID'S PLACE OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY AND MARTHA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUR ABUNDANT LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Small But Mighty Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds A Brighter Community Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Saunders Foundation · Pinellas Community Foundation · Grapevine giving foundation · Lv Thompson Family Foundation Inc · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mabel & Ellsworth Simmons Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Champions for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- New Life Village Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grow Into You Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Macdonald Training Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.