· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $312k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA- CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $917,533 |
| THE LINSLY SCHOOL | $600,000 |
| CALIBER FOUNDATION | $415,000 |
| ZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS | $250,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION | $97,400 |
| CROSSNORE SCHOOL-FOSTER HOME | $65,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NC | $50,000 |
| CONGAREE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CAMP SCHREIBER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA- TIDE PRIDE | $21,987 |
| PAWS 4 PEOPLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| GOODSHEPERD-HOMELESS SUPPORT | $10,000 |
| WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- TLTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +72%
- ZCZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +302%
- CRCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $297k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- PFPPD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SFSIMMONS FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND - FIDELITYone grant, 2019 · $75k
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.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The purpose of the foundation is to foster and support statewide public service and pro bono programs and projects that promote access to justice, civic education, service, and professionalism.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
National philanthropic trust ("npt") is a public charity dedicated to increasing philanthropy in society by providing philanthropic expertise to donors, foundations and financial institutions, enabling them to realize their philanthropic…
We fund game-changing research and all-star scientists to accelerate victory over cancer and save lives.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eden Village of Wilmington. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 80 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 THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Congaree Foundation ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds CAMP SCHREIBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds PAWS4PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NHNTX INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.