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Simon Family Foundation at a glance

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Simon Family Foundation

Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

$573k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$785kHuman Services$462kHealth$360kEducation$235kFood & Nutrition$190kReligion$169kEmployment$140kArts & Culture$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $358k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$103,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO$90,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$60,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHEONIX$55,000
METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC$50,000
UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT$25,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC$25,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC$20,000
DIGNITY GROWS INC$20,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES INC$20,000
MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND$20,000
DIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION$15,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC$11,000
CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DIGNITY GROWS INC: $20k → 11%DIGNITY GROWS INC: $20k → 11%DIGNITY GROWS INC: $10k → 11%DIGNITY GROWS INC: $10k → 11%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $20k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $20k → 17%MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $20k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Simon Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Simon Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 20 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$1.9M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $488k · revenue +13%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +25%
  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF GREATER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +48%
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.

04Its field

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.

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The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
2
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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3
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy
4
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
5
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
8
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
10
Jobsohio

To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.

Employment
11
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $747,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: $57,500 · PhilanthropyMONTEFIORE FOUNDATIONJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $55,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF G…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $488,300 · ReligionJEWISH FAMILY SERV…MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $162,500 · HealthMENORAH PARK FO…UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $160,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY HOSP…THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH…SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $110,000 · Human ServicesSHOES AND …DIGNITY GROWS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GR…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DE…CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $40,000 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND …The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Mandel…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF GREATER: $100,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CAM…YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $70,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES …DIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION: $30,000 · OtherDIGS WITH DIGNITY CO…GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $115,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FO…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $105,000 · OtherThe American Jewish …TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $70,000 · OtherTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT I…FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $28,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $70,000 · Public BenefitAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $49,500 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$870,300Religion$488,300Health$397,500Human Services$280,000Arts & Culture$210,000Other$538,000Public Benefit$129,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $747,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $488,300 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $162,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $115,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $110,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $70,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $70,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $55,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $49,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Treu Mart FundThe Cleveland Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Treu Mart FundOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Treu Mart Fund · The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Simon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Simon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Simon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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