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Simkiss Family 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.

$33k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 37
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$384k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Simkiss Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureSocial ScienceInternationalHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$32k7%
FY202430$31k0%
FY202337$33k22%
FY202229$29k28%
FY202122$27k32%
FY202023$22kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$94kEnvironment$21kEducation$15kPublic Benefit$14kArts & Culture$10kInternational$5kPhilanthropy$3kSocial Science$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
VA
DE
AZ
TN
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simkiss Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaoli Memorial Hospital Foundation: $85,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $6,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Academy of Vocal Arts: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMelmark Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Sugartown Incorporated: $1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIntercollegiate Studies Institute Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLudwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Joseph's University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabrini Legacy Corporation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMackinac Center: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedia Research Center: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMalvern Fire Company: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de Jesus: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedomworks Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fund for American Studies: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

The Merz Family FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Merz Family Foundation · Macelree Family Foundation · E Murdoch Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Simkiss Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Simkiss Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Simkiss Family Foundation

How much does Simkiss Family Foundation give?
Simkiss Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $32,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Simkiss Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Environment (12%), Education (9%).
Who are Simkiss Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Paoli Memorial Hospital Foundation ($85k), Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ($18k), Judicial Watch Inc ($6k).
Does Simkiss Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Simkiss Family Foundation 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 Simkiss Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Merz Family Foundation, Macelree Family Foundation, E Murdoch Family Foundation.
Where is Simkiss Family Foundation based?
Simkiss Family Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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