· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAGLES AUTISM FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| REACH PREP INC | $35,000 |
| PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC | $35,000 |
| THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC | $20,000 |
| BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SOCIETY OF FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| GREENWICH COUNTRY CAY SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| PERSON-TO-PERSON INC | $8,950 |
| CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $5,195 |
| MV YOUTH INC | $5,000 |
| EMO AND CIV HELP THE WORLD CORP | $5,000 |
| THE STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC | $3,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD SAFETY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 9 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE7× · 2019–2025 · $245k · revenue +127%
- RPREACH PREP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +67%
- EAEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +95%
Funded once
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -15%- BMBRUCE MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -45%
- TPTHE PLANETARY SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
How this is measured
125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 162 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLANETARY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds READYCT INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEW LEONARD III WATER SAFETY FD INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simmons Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simmons Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
- Readyct Inc: 61% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
- Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc: 44% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc: 36% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- The Hill House Inc: 28% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
- Stamford Senior Centerinc: 16% of income from government
- Project Music Inc: 14% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
- Norwich University: 4% of income from government
- Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc: 1% of income from government
- Health in the Hood Inc: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc: 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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