California · Private foundation
Robert 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.
- $355k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $53,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Robert Ellis Simon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $355k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $329k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $39k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $295k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $135k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $277k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $340k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Counsel | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Community Health Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Lgbt Center | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Door of Hope | $73,700 | 2 | 2% |
| Muslims for Progressive Values | $58,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services | $57,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Live Oak Mental Wellness Project Inc | $54,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Watts of Power Foundation Corporation | $53,000 | 1 | 8% |
| La Voice | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Onegeneration | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($595k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert Ellis Simon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Sempra Foundation · QueensCare · United Way Inc · Baby2baby
How this is measured
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About Robert Ellis Simon Foundation
- How much does Robert Ellis Simon Foundation give?
- Robert Ellis Simon Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $355,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Robert Ellis Simon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (17%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Robert Ellis Simon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Public Counsel ($120k), Martin Luther King Jr Community Health Foundation ($100k), Los Angeles Lgbt Center ($75k).
- Does Robert Ellis Simon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert Ellis Simon 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 Robert Ellis Simon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Robert Ellis Simon Foundation based?
- Robert Ellis Simon Foundation is based in CA.
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