Connecticut · Private foundation
Simmons Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $290k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Simmons Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 30 | $287k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $262k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $223k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $232k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $150k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $116k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $116k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $96k | 49% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Roosevelt Institute | $245,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Reach Prep Inc | $192,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Eagles Autism Challenge Inc | $84,333 | 4 | 0% |
| Mv Youth Inc | $62,000 | 4 | 2% |
| United Way of Greenwich Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Springboard Collaborative | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pursuit Transformation Company Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greenwich Country Day School Inc | $34,500 | 7 | 0% |
| You Gotta Believe - the Older Child Adoption & Permanency Movement Inc | $33,500 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 125 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simmons Family Foundation Inc 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rich Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Panwy Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Stanton Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Simmons Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Simmons Family Foundation Inc give?
- Simmons Family Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $289,605 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Simmons Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (14%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Simmons Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Roosevelt Institute ($245k), Reach Prep Inc ($192k), Eagles Autism Challenge Inc ($84k).
- Does Simmons Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simmons Family Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Rich Foundation Inc.
- Where is Simmons Family Foundation Inc based?
- Simmons Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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