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Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc at a glance

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Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc

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.

$193k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$202kPhilanthropy$96kArts & Culture$80kInternational$69kEnvironment$54kEducation$45kHuman Services$40kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOC FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES$100,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$66,798
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$10,000
HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$5,000
ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER$1,000
HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VNA CARE HOSPICE INC: $200 → 11%SURVIVING IN NUMBERS INC: $36k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
TX
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 20% of Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.7% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$322k · 18 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
43

Total granted

$322k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+63%

Still filing today

89%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalArts & CultureEducationReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MA
    MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +42%
  • CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue ×19
  • HI
    HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +414%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARAB FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SI
    SURVIVING IN NUMBERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
  • TS
    THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue -64%
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.

1
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
2
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
3
Institute for Protein Innovation Inc

The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.

Health
4
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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7
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
10
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
11
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
12
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund; the most unlike its peers is Rebecoming Inc. 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

56 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. 56 of the 66 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
39/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $123,500 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR…PSFC: $35,000 · HealthPSFCBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED: $10,000 · HealthBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED+8 more: $15,800 · Health+8 moreCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $64,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIO…CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $10,500 · Arts & CultureCHICKEN & EGG …+5 more: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE ARAB FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $50,000 · OtherTHE ARAB FOUNDATION FOR S…Boston Psychedelic Research Group Inc: $12,200 · OtherBoston Psychedelic Resear…B Comstock: $5,000 · OtherSURVIVING IN NUMBERS INC: $35,640 · OtherSURVIVING IN NUMBERS INCBIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · OtherBIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIAT…+22 more: $24,725 · Other+22 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $66,798 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INV…IDEAS IN ACTION INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $26,150 · InternationalTHE SYNER…PANORAMA GLOBAL: $10,000 · InternationalPANORAMA …REFUGEPOINT INC: $3,000 · InternationalREFUGEPOI…MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $2,500 · InternationalHAITI PROJECTS INC: $2,000 · InternationalMILLENNIUM CAMPUS NETWORK INC: $2,000 · InternationalJust Vision Inc: $2,000 · InternationalTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $2,000 · International+3 more: $3,000 · International+3 morePLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyKARAM FOUNDATION: $20,500 · PhilanthropyUNFUNDED LIST: $3,600 · PhilanthropyHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $12,100 · EducationSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 · EducationOCAMORA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · Education
Health$184,300Arts & Culture$79,500Other$137,565Community Improvement$69,298International$52,650Philanthropy$49,100Education$47,600

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 budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $123,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $66,798 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $64,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPSFC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $26,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $12,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNFUNDED LIST: $3,600 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCWAYS HOME: $3,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDEAS IN ACTION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAIRTOSTAY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAITI PROJECTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABRAHAM PATH INITIATIVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILLENNIUM CAMPUS NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJust Vision Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRUB STREET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVE ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS AUGUST JONAS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…The William H Donner …Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…Open Society InstituteImpactassetsincThe San Francisco Fou…The Austin & Gabriela…Jewish Community Fede…The Joe & Sandy Sambe…Steven & Alexandra Co…
Boston Foundation IncMA23× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The William H Donner Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Open Society Institute · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Austin & Gabriela Hearst Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Vna Care Hospice Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 66 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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