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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$604kHuman Services$324kHousing & Shelter$250kCivil Rights$197kCrime & Legal$188kEducation$153kCommunity Improvement$133kEmployment$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $304k
$53,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEP UP ON 2ND$80,000
LARCA$59,000
MUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES$58,000
LIVE OAK MENTAL WELLNESS PROJECT$54,000
WATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION$53,000
ONE GENERATION$25,000
ACCOMPANY WORLDWIDE$24,000
DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$1,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $40k → 10%HEALING URBAN BARRIOS: $50k → 14%ISIAH LA: $44k → 14%LIVE OAK MENTAL WELLNESS PROJECT: $54k → 14%WELLNEST: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Robert Ellis Simon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 91%.

Robert Ellis Simon Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 7 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
34

Total granted

$340k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+54%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalCivil RightsReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PUBLIC COUNSEL
    3× · 2018–2022 · $120k · revenue +69%
  • DO
    DOOR OF HOPE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $74k · revenue +183%
  • O
    ONEGENERATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • ML
    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -25%
  • AH
    ADVENTIST HEALTH WHITE MEMORIAL FOU
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • MP
    MUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL FOUND
    one grant, 2017 · $88k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc

Mental health services advocacy

Human Services
2
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
3
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
4
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
5
Healthright 360

To give hope and change lives. we do this by offering a continuum of prevention, intervention, behavioral health and wellness services to adults and families throughout california. these services aim to reduce costs of societal problems by…

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6
The Center in Hollywood

The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…

Human Services
7
Project Lift La

Provider of human services

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8
Alcott Center for Mental Health Services

Alcott's mission is to improve the mental health of underserved individuals through integrated social care.

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9
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
10
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Our Vision is to enhance the educational and economic well-being of the people we serve by means of direct human services, advocacy, and referrals.Our Mission is to save lives, unite families, and protect the community through addiction…

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11
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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12
Downtown Women's Center

Housing, employment, and physical and mental health services for women overcoming homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Drug Abuse Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Watts of Power Foundation Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADVENTIST HEALTH WHITE MEMORIAL FOU: $100,000 · OtherADVENTIST HEALTH WHITE MEMORIAL FOUMUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL FOUND: $87,500 · OtherMUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL FOUNDSTEP UP ON 2ND: $81,000 · OtherSTEP UP ON 2NDLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $75,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTERDOOR OF HOPE: $73,700 · OtherDOOR OF HOPEAMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVI: $60,000 · OtherAMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVILARCA: $59,000 · OtherLARCACOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY TRAFFI: $50,000 · OtherONEGENERATION: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LA: $50,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LA: $50,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC COUNSELING SERVICES: $40,300 · OtherGRANDVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Other+15 more: $180,385 · Other+15 moreLIVE OAK MENTAL WELLNESS PROJECT INC: $54,000 · Human ServicesLIVE OAK MENT…HEALING URBAN BARRIOS: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEALING URBAN…ISLAH LA: $43,680 · Human ServicesISLAH LAACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesACCESS CALIFO…Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness: $30,000 · Human ServicesWellnest Emot…HOPE THE MISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MISS…MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthMARTIN LUTHE…The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services: $57,200 · HealthThe Whole Ch…GATEWAYS HOSPITAL & MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $45,000 · HealthGATEWAYS HOS…+2 more: $6,500 · HealthUCLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationWATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $53,000 · EducationLA VOICE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $50,000 · Community ImprovementPICO UNION PROJECT: $33,200 · Community ImprovementPUBLIC COUNSEL: $120,000 · Crime & LegalMUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES: $58,000 · Religion
Other$1,046,885Human Services$237,680Health$208,700Education$153,000Community Improvement$133,200Crime & Legal$120,000Religion$58,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $73,700 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES: $58,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetThe Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services: $57,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVE OAK MENTAL WELLNESS PROJECT INC: $54,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $53,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetLA VOICE: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetONEGENERATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING URBAN BARRIOS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGATEWAYS HOSPITAL & MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLAH LA: $43,680 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPICO UNION PROJECT: $33,200 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT JUSTICE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OUTSIDE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $27,135 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWEST HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACCOMPANY WORLDWIDE INC: $24,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Against Gun Violence: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWRIGHT INSTITUTE LOS ANGELES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Wellne…The Ahmanson Foundati…S Mark Taper Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…Sempra FoundationQueensCareUnited Way IncBaby2baby
California Community FoundationCA31.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert Ellis Simon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Ellis Simon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Robert Ellis Simon Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert Ellis Simon Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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