· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GERSTELL ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $2,500 |
| YMCA | $1,180 |
| IMPACT 100 | $1,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CHURCH NANTUCKET | $1,000 |
| NANTUCKET ATHENEUM | $1,000 |
| SAIL TO PREVAIL | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $635 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GAGERSTELL ACADEMY INC3× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +46%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +78%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- NCNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $14k
- TJTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +54%
- TFTHE FOUNDERS FUND INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -67%
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.
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GERSTELL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert L Simmons Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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