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Simms 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VEGAS PBS CH 10 | $22,738 |
| METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| WAGGING TAILS RESCUE | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $1,114 |
| KEEP MEMORY ALIVE | $1,000 |
| YOU GOTTA LOVE THEM | $1,000 |
| SPOHNC | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| HERO SCHOOL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| PREBORN | $500 |
| BUGLES ACROSS AMERICA | $500 |
| CAMP RONALD MCDONALD FOR THE GOOD T | $500 |
| HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE HORSE RESCUE | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +82%
- WTWAGGING TAILS RESCUE7× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +74%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- PCPBS Ch 10 Signing Timeone grant, 2017 · $23k
- BOBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGASone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Community Animal Treatment Center (CATC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to delivering high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter (HQHVSN) services for community cats and pets, with a focus on supporting low-income…
The purpose of argos, a shelter dog rescue is: to rescue animals from situations that are abusive, endangering, or neglectful. to rescue animals in danger of being euthanized in new mexico shelters/pounds. to provide necessary veterinary…
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
Compassionate animal rescue for medical aid was founded by veterinary professionals dedicated to enhancing the lives of our community through our love for animals. our purpose is to rescue sick or injured animals, provide them with…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Homeward bound is a no-kill adoption center dedicated to saving the lives of homeless cats in the las vegas valley and providing a humane recourse for people in distress who are no longer able to care for their cats- offering an…
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Las vegas valley humane society is dedicated to improving the welfare of animals in southern nevada. the organization's primary emphasis is on stray and abandoned animals and reducing animal overpopulation.
Animals in good homes, to provide low cost vacinations and spay/nueter clinics. to educate the community about responsible pet ownership.
Heartland humane society is a no-kill shelter for dogs and cats. the mission is to provide temporary shelter and care to homeless/lost animals, to educate the public on proper care of animals, and to promote neuter and spay programs.
Our mission is to collaborate with individuals and humane rescue groups in order to save the lives of homeless dogs and cats by promoting and facilitating access to affordable, high volume/high quality spay and neuter surgeries in a…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Critical Care Comics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAGGING TAILS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bountiful Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN CAN WAIT ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds A HOME 4 SPOT ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds VEGAS STRONGER ↗
- Who funds CRITICAL CARE COMICS ↗
- Who funds HELP AMERICA HEAR 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: Wynn Resorts Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Simms 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.
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