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Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
11
Organizations funded FY2021
45%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 45% of the organizations Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY202111$20k45%
FY20206$19k83%
FY20183$13k100%
FY20171$14kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$30kEducation$21kHuman Services$7kYouth Development$5kArts & Culture$1kPhilanthropy$1kReligion$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gerstell Academy Inc$15,00030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$7,50020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$6,00020%
The Johns Hopkins Hospital$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc$4,50020%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$3,63520%
The Founders Fund Inc$2,50010%
Sail to Prevail$2,00020%
Nantucket Atheneum Inc$1,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGerstell Academy Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Johns Hopkins Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Pbc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,635 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Founders Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSail to Prevail: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNantucket Atheneum Inc: $1,000 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 9.

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About Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc

How much does Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc give?
Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $19,815 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (45%), Education (32%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Gerstell Academy Inc ($15k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($8k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($6k).
Does Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc 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 Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc based?
Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 14 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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