· Private foundation
Simionescu Scholarship Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $31,500 |
| FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY | $12,567 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $11,500 |
| BROOKLYN COLLEGE | $11,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $11,500 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| KEAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR UNIV | $9,912 |
| THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
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
- WCWellesley College3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +42%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +50%
FELICIAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- JWJOHNSON WALES UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- DVDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +17%
- UOUNIVERSTIY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FELICIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Saint Elizabeth University ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Simionescu Scholarship 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Saint Elizabeth University — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
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.