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Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family 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.

$103k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$103k5%
FY202420$88k5%
FY202320$80k20%
FY202216$76k6%
FY202019$64kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$191kHealth$83kInternational$39kRecreation & Sports$29kArts & Culture$20kHousing & Shelter$16kEducation$14kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
WI
MI
NY
NJ
VA
MD
AZ
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Samaritan's Purse$38,50050%
Camp Li Lo Li Incorporated$28,5005n/a
Ugm of Dallas$24,0003n/a
Believers Chapel Inc$23,0005n/a
Dallas Symphony Association$18,50050%
American Heart Association Inc$17,50050%
Dallas Theological Seminary$13,00050%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10,00030%
First Baptist Church$5,0003n/a
Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Samaritan's Purse$38,50050%
Camp Li Lo Li Incorporated$28,5005n/a
Ugm of Dallas$24,0003n/a
Believers Chapel Inc$23,0005n/a
Dallas Symphony Association$18,50050%
American Heart Association Inc$17,50050%
Dallas Theological Seminary$13,00050%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10,00030%
First Baptist Church$5,0003n/a
Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
Veterans of Foreign Wars$5,00030%
The Navigators$5,0003n/a
Uplook Ministries Inc$2,50051%
Artists Working in Education Inc$1,00010%
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association$50010%
The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc$50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSamaritan's Purse: $38,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Symphony Association: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeneva Lake Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUplook Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetArtists Working in Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanandaigua Lake Watershed Association: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation

How much does Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation give?
Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $103,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Health (20%), International (9%).
Who are Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($39k), Camp Li Lo Li Incorporated ($29k), Ugm of Dallas ($24k).
Does Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family 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 J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation based?
Robert J and Elizabeth A Symon Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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