Utah · Private foundation
Simmons Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $625k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $202,351
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Simmons Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $572k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $809k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $852k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $570k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $722k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $820k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $715k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $474k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc | $769,965 | 4 | 0% |
| Shelter the Homeless Inc | $500,147 | 3 | 3% |
| Davis Education Foundation | $240,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Utah Symphony & Opera | $210,437 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $207,099 | 3 | n/a |
| Utah State University | $190,354 | 8 | n/a |
| People Helping People | $185,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Utah Youth Village | $175,484 | 7 | 0% |
| Ballet West | $175,225 | 8 | 0% |
| Treehouse Children's Museum | $160,000 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simmons Family 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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Simmons Family Foundation
- How much does Simmons Family Foundation give?
- Simmons Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $625,106 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Simmons Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (23%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (18%).
- Who are Simmons Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Intermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc ($770k), Shelter the Homeless Inc ($500k), Davis Education Foundation ($240k).
- Does Simmons Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simmons 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 Simmons Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Simmons Family Foundation based?
- Simmons Family Foundation is based in UT.
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