New York · Private foundation
Simon Family 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.
- $632k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Simon Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Simon Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $632k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $351k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Simon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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 | 12 | $601k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $170k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $485k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $150k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $625k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fund for Public Schools Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Change Your Brain Change Your Life Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voces8 Foundation USA | $75,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Mohala Hou Foundation | $60,000 | 1 | 28% |
| The Abraham Initiatives Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Education Leads to Success Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($186k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Simon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Simon Family Foundation
- How much does Simon Family Foundation give?
- Simon Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $631,906 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Simon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Simon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Fund for Public Schools Inc ($1.0M), Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc ($250k), Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association ($100k).
- Does Simon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Simon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Network for Good, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Simon Family Foundation based?
- Simon Family Foundation is based in NY.
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