Texas · Private foundation
Simmons Canyon 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.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 92%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $969k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 92% of the organizations Simmons Canyon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 | 7 | $57k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $71k | 92% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $67k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $70k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $75k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $55k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellspring Women's Center | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Austin Children's Museum | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy Non-Profit Corporation | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Imagine a Way | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Police Dog Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Operation Kindness | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simmons Canyon Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Topfer Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Simmons Canyon Foundation
- How much does Simmons Canyon Foundation give?
- Simmons Canyon Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $57,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Simmons Canyon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (17%), Arts & Culture (12%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Simmons Canyon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Wellspring Women's Center ($30k), Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ($20k), Austin Children's Museum ($20k).
- Does Simmons Canyon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simmons Canyon 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 Simmons Canyon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is Simmons Canyon Foundation based?
- Simmons Canyon Foundation is based in TX.
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