California · Private foundation
Nina Simone Charitable Trust
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.
- $961k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $114,560
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $808,318
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2019 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Nina Simone Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $961k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $942k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $858k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $772k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $425k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $225k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playing for Change Foundation | $205,618 | 5 | 3% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
About Nina Simone Charitable Trust
- How much does Nina Simone Charitable Trust give?
- Nina Simone Charitable Trust reported 3 grants totaling $961,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Nina Simone Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (86%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Nina Simone Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Playing for Change Foundation ($206k).
- Does Nina Simone Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nina Simone Charitable Trust 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.
- Where is Nina Simone Charitable Trust based?
- Nina Simone Charitable Trust is based in CA.
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