Texas · Private foundation
Simmons 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Simmons Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 20 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $2.6M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $2.1M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.9M | 65% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $932k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $557k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $547k | 68% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $78k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Linsly School Incorporated | $2,245,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Zeta Charter Schools Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Caliber Foundation | $612,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Christopher Reeve Foundation | $396,100 | 5 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $287,080 | 6 | 0% |
| Congaree Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $156,373 | 2 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $135,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Camp Schreiber Foundation | $95,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism | $92,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), 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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
About Simmons Family Foundation
- How much does Simmons Family Foundation give?
- Simmons Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,113,171 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Simmons Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Public Benefit (37%), Civil Rights (6%).
- Who are Simmons Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Linsly School Incorporated ($2.2M), Zeta Charter Schools Inc ($1.0M), The Caliber Foundation ($613k).
- Does Simmons Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% 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 Duke Energy Foundation, The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation, Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Simmons Family Foundation based?
- Simmons Family Foundation is based in TX.
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