California · Private foundation
Ronald M Simon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,737,251
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Ronald M Simon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $3.3M | 46% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $2.0M | 69% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $1.8M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $1.1M | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange County Music and Dance Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc | $701,718 | 1 | 2% |
| Pacific Symphony | $325,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Young Lives Redeemed | $125,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Chapman University | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kherut | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Project Hope Alliance | $82,887 | 3 | 2% |
| Choc Foundation | $65,715 | 3 | 0% |
| Casa Teresa Inc | $65,005 | 2 | 1% |
| The Teen Project Inc | $53,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ronald M Simon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Ronald M Simon Family Foundation
- How much does Ronald M Simon Family Foundation give?
- Ronald M Simon Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $3,346,864 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ronald M Simon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (9%), Arts & Culture (9%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
- Who are Ronald M Simon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orange County Music and Dance Inc ($1.0M), Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc ($702k), Pacific Symphony ($325k).
- Does Ronald M Simon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ronald M Simon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ronald M Simon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, The Devto Support Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation.
- Where is Ronald M Simon Family Foundation based?
- Ronald M Simon Family Foundation is based in CA.
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