Arkansas · Private foundation
Simmons First Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $868k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 102
- Grants FY2024
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,436
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,256
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 90
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Simmons First Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k 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 | 102 | $868k | 78% |
| FY2023 | 90 | $1.0M | 80% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $362k | 85% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $1.4M | 93% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $147k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $142k | 94% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $356k | 97% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centers for Youth and Families Inc | $66,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hurricane Hype Center | $61,205 | 2 | 11% |
| Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family Services Inc | $58,118 | 2 | 1% |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCING INC dba OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD & RESOURCE CTR | $51,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ozark Mission Project Inc | $51,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Seark Concert Assn | $46,500 | 2 | 47% |
| Mtn View Family Youth Center | $44,796 | 3 | 19% |
| Rise Memphis Inc | $40,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Compass Academy | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County | $39,652 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 185 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 165 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Simmons First Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 156 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Cadence Bank Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Regions Foundation · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Veterans United Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Simmons First Foundation Inc
- How much does Simmons First Foundation Inc give?
- Simmons First Foundation Inc reported 102 grants totaling $868,108 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Simmons First Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Youth Development (15%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Simmons First Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Centers for Youth and Families Inc ($66k), Hurricane Hype Center ($61k), Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family Services Inc ($58k).
- Does Simmons First Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simmons First Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Simmons First Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation, Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc.
- Where is Simmons First Foundation Inc based?
- Simmons First Foundation Inc is based in AR.
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