· Private foundation
Simmons 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| EAST COWETA BAND BOOSTERS | $7,500 |
| SPIRITUS SANCTUS ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| MICHIGAN ARMED FORCES HOSPITALITY CENTER INC | $3,900 |
| BETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $3,500 |
| JAMESTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| HEROES PTO INC | $2,500 |
| YOUTH ARTS ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| HERE TO HELP FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DETROIT CATHOLIC PASTORAL ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| WASHTENAW ONE HUNDRED | $1,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY | $1,500 |
| ARBOR HOSPICE | $1,200 |
| ANN ARBOR ART CENTER | $900 |
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 (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- ECEAST COWETA BAND BOOSTERS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +72%
- YAYOUTH ARTS ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +132%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- FLFunding Love Corpgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +224%
- DRDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTERS OF MICHIGAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +57%
- M2Matthew 25 Ministries Incone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -9%
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.
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Our mission is to increase awareness of the problems of people who are homeless and the development and carrying out of strategies to create permanent solutions to homelessness in our community.
Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The mission of the washtenaw housing alliance is to end homelessness in our community.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Habitat for humanity - grand traverse region is an ecumenical christian housing ministry. the organization works in partnership with people to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing. habitat challenges…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evangelical Homes of Michigan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Here to Help Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 40 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 EAST COWETA BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ARMED FORCES HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Arbor Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW ONE HUNDRED INC ↗
- Who funds HERE TO HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Art Association ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT CATHOLIC PASTORAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOEYS TOY BOX INC ↗
- Who funds Heroes PTO Inc ↗
- Who funds Funding Love Corp ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds American Heritage Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTERS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COUNCIL FOR PEACE & JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds ADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.