Texas · Private foundation
Neal & Lourdes Simmons 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.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,050
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 11 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $64k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $56k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $64k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $74k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $111k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church | $230,650 | 6 | n/a |
| Valley Zoological Endowment | $62,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Driscoll Children's Hospital | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brownsville Society for Crippled Children Incorporated | $14,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Valley Zoological Society | $6,800 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Southern Cameron County | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunshine Haven Inc | $5,200 | 5 | 0% |
| IDEA Public Schools | $4,750 | 3 | 0% |
| TIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc | $3,850 | 6 | 1% |
| Btx Art League | $3,100 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Serafy Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation · The Farris Foundation · Earl C Sams Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
About Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation
- How much does Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation give?
- Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $58,460 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Animals (16%), Health (10%).
- Who are Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First United Methodist Church ($231k), Valley Zoological Endowment ($63k), Driscoll Children's Hospital ($20k).
- Does Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Neal & Lourdes Simmons 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 Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education, Serafy Foundation, Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation.
- Where is Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation based?
- Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation is based in TX.
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