· Private foundation
Sandra and Lawrence Simon Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Sandra and Lawrence Simon Family Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Sandra and Lawrence Simon Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $120k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| RAINN | $20,000 |
| FIRST BOOK | $20,000 |
| CYCLE FOR SURVIVAL MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| SUNRISE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +131% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CDCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +295%
- WCWESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +131%
- SDSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +38%
Funded once
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -22%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +45%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 13 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.
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- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sandra and Lawrence Simon Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandra and Lawrence Simon Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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