· Private foundation
Ronald M Simon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $413k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,737,251 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| YOUNG LIVES REDEEMED | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| TEEN PROJECT | $53,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,368 |
| VETERAN'S RELIEF FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHOC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $34,171 |
| PRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY | $27,700 |
| UC IRVINE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| IMPACTGIVING | $23,805 |
| THE LITERACY PROJECT | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOPE BUILDERS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PSPacific Symphony2× · 2023–2024 · $325k · revenue +51%
- YLYOUNG LIVES REDEEMED2× · 2024–2025 · $125k · revenue +56%
- PHProject Hope Alliance3× · 2023–2025 · $83k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCone grant, 2017 · $702k · revenue -9%
- KKHERUTone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- SBSIMON BUILDERS PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
California humanities was founded in 1975 with a defined mission to connect californians to ideas and one another in order to understand our shared heritage and diverse cultures, inspire civic participation, and shape our future.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Relief Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIVES REDEEMED ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KHERUT ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GIVING ↗
- Who funds PRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC 100 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT ATTN MICHELLE WULFESTIEG ↗
- Who funds California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE-SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ARTS & LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CEO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Hispanic Business Women Ass ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ronald M Simon Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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