· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILIES SERVICES | $10,000 |
| OPERATION KINDNESS | $10,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $10,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $8,500 |
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $5,000 |
| SHOMER TEXAS | $3,600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WWWELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +15%
- ZBZILKER BOTANICAL GARDEN CONSERVANCY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +213%
- ACAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- KTKEEP THE MEMORY ALIVEone grant, 2022 · $15k
- TOTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +170%
- GSGERMAN SHEPARDS OF ORANGE COUNTone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To prevent cruelty to animals, the texas coalition for animal protection (tcap) provides compassionate solutions to pet overpopulation and community animal welfare. tcap accomplishes this goal by making affordable, high quality…
To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Napa Valley Grape Growers Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 55 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 AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZILKER BOTANICAL GARDEN CONSERVANCY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE A WAY ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Napa County & SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds VIDIOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds YAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Better ATX ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY GRAPE GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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: 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
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 Simmons Canyon 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.