· Private foundation
Simons 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO GEN-TO-GEN | $20,000 |
| KOLBE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| IGNATION VOLUNTEER CORPS | $8,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $8,000 |
| REFUGEE ONE | $8,000 |
| ONE MILLION DEGREES | $8,000 |
| AVENUES OF INDEPENDENCE | $8,000 |
| TALLER DE JOSE | $8,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR YOUTH | $8,000 |
| STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $8,000 |
| WINGS PROGRAM INC | $8,000 |
| ST SABINA ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| NET MINISTRIES FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| CRISTO REY ST MARTIN COLLEGE PREP | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
98 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ATAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +70%
- MUMarquette University5× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +36%
- RREFUGEEONE5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEEDY FAMILY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +760%
- CMCARMELITE MONASTERYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AOASSEMBLIES OF GOD WORLD MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
How this is measured
82 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. 82 of the 184 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN EMPLOYED ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds TALLER DE JOSE ↗
- Who funds THE NEEDY FAMILY FUND ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
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: The Service Club of Chicago · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simons Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simons Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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