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Michael Simmons Charitable Foundation In

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.

$380k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$315kHousing & Shelter$240kYouth Development$155kHuman Services$150kScience & Tech$95kEmployment$70kCivil Rights$60kInternational$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILADD INC$95,000
LIVE YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION$60,000
WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN$55,000
EMILY'S HOPE INC$50,000
DEV46 INCORPORATED$30,000
STREET SAMARITANS INC$25,000
CHANGED CHOICES$25,000
THE FORGE INITIATIVE INC$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $145k) 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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF CAMDEN COUNTY: $50k → 13%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $20k → 4%EMILY'S HOPE INC: $50k → 9%STREET SAMARITANS INC: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
2
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
3
Electric Girls Inc

Electric girls builds girls' (ages 5 to 14) confidence & capabilities by engaging them in science, technology, engineering, and math (stem). electric girls facilitates in-school and extra-curricular programs (after-school, weekends, summer…

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4
Girls With Impact Inc

Girls with impact, inc. is the nation's only live, online business & leadership program for young women ages 14-24 years old. its mission is to level the playing field for all women in business and beyond by equipping them with the skills,…

Education
5
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
6
Would-Works Inc

At Would Works, we are committed to help youth with barriers to employment to heal, learn new skills, grow their confidence and prepare for their next opportunities, by providing paid, creative, hands-on woodworking training in a…

Human Services
7
Towards Employment Inc

We champion the potential of every person to succeed in a rewarding career, while working to create an equitable and inclusive workforce for tomorrow. we do this by providing skill development for in demand jobs, comprehensive supports,…

Employment
8
Girls Inc of Chicago

Girls inc of chicago provides programming for girls grades k-12 throughout the chicagoland area to inspire them to be strong, smart and bold. as developed by longstanding tax-exempt organization girls incorporated, our comprehensive…

Youth Development
9
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
10
Girls Incorporated of Tennessee Valley

Inspiring girls ages 5-19 to become strong, smart & bold

Youth Development
11
Inspiredu Inc

InspirEdus mission is to help underserved youth develop the skills needed for education and career success through technology-based learning tools and engagement activities with their families, communities, and schools.

Education
12
The Stride Center

As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Empowherment Community Center Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC — $80,000 · OtherTHE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE …LIVE YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherLIVE YOUR DREAM FOUNDATIONWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $55,000 · OtherWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRE…CALIBRATE — $50,000 · OtherCALIBRATEMERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS — $50,000 · OtherMERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLSIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEV46 INCORPORATED — $30,000 · OtherDEV46 INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherCREATORS CAMP USA INC — $15,000 · OtherEmpowherment Community Center Inc — $15,000 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherILADD — $95,000 · Housing & ShelterILADDSARAH'S CIRCLE — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLEATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA CHILDREN'S …RAINBOW PLACE SHELTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRAINBOW PLACE SHELT…OPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOESTR…Emilys Hope — $50,000 · Human ServicesEmilys HopeCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S LEARNI…STREET SAMARITANS — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SAMARITANSA FARM LESS ORDINARY — $20,000 · Human ServicesA FARM LESS ORDIN…FUTURE KINGS INC — $60,000 · EducationFUTURE KINGS IN…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $50,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEEL…TEACH HER INC — $50,000 · EducationTEACH HER INCTHE FORGE INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE FORGE INITI…CODEART INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBETTER BASICS INC — $50,000 · Crime & LegalChanged Choices Inc — $25,000 · Crime & LegalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC — $50,000 · InternationalInspired-Threads Inc — $50,000 · Employment
Other$435,000Housing & Shelter$215,000Human Services$195,000Education$180,000Youth Development$80,000Crime & Legal$75,000International$50,000Employment$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFUTURE KINGS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $55,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTEACH HER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCODEART INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetChanged Choices Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetRAINBOW PLACE SHELTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE FORGE INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetA FARM LESS ORDINARY — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetEmpowherment Community Center Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Michael Simmons Charitable Foundation In 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.

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no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    9report 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

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Michael Simmons Charitable Foundation In?

    Find your warmest path to Michael Simmons Charitable Foundation In through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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