California · Private foundation
Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $17M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 53
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $284M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 56 | $17M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $10M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $16M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $9.1M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $5.0M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $4.0M | 60% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $4.4M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $5.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sam Simon Feeding Families Foundation | $14,180,000 | 8 | 100% |
| The Sam Simon Charitable Foundation | $14,124,000 | 6 | 100% |
| People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc | $8,700,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Kipp Socal Public Schools | $2,425,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mercy for Animals Inc | $1,850,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Para Los Ninos | $1,850,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The People Concern | $1,750,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Homeless Health Care Los Angeles | $1,737,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Food Forward Inc | $1,700,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chrysalis | $1,200,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Baby2baby · Shelter Partnership Inc · United Way Inc
How this is measured
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About Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc
- How much does Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc give?
- Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $17,088,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (25%), Food & Nutrition (25%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Sam Simon Feeding Families Foundation ($14M), The Sam Simon Charitable Foundation ($14M), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc ($8.7M).
- Does Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam Simon Charitable Giving 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, Conrad N Hilton Foundation.
- Where is Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc based?
- Sam Simon Charitable Giving Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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