California · Private foundation
Simon-Strauss 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.
- $419k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Simon-Strauss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 68 | $386k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $373k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $400k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $390k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $373k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $385k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $306k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $308k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $129,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| ALS Network | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Harmony Project | $64,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Fresh Start Surgical Gifts | $51,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Promises2kids Foundation | $50,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wildwood School Inc | $48,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bay Area Cancer Connections | $46,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simon-Strauss Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
About Simon-Strauss Foundation
- How much does Simon-Strauss Foundation give?
- Simon-Strauss Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $419,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Simon-Strauss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Human Services (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are Simon-Strauss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Humane Society Silicon Valley ($129k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($80k), ALS Network ($75k).
- Does Simon-Strauss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simon-Strauss 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-Strauss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation.
- Where is Simon-Strauss Foundation based?
- Simon-Strauss Foundation is based in CA.
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