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Simons Family Foundation The

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.

$13k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$194k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Simons Family Foundation The funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$18k5%
FY202422$14k5%
FY202323$14k0%
FY202223$12k4%
FY202125$10k20%
FY202022$9k5%
FY201924$11k8%
FY201825$11k12%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$25kEnvironment$22kHousing & Shelter$19kHealth$18kAnimals$17kInternational$10kCrime & Legal$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simons Family Foundation The supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Cincinnati: $3,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $3,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $3,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $2,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Humane Society: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPlymouth 400 Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Student Conservation Association Inc: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Wilderness League: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe New England Quarterly: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Exotic Animal Sanctuary: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of Boston: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Redwoods League: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Simons Family Foundation The

How much does Simons Family Foundation The give?
Simons Family Foundation The reported 23 grants totaling $13,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Simons Family Foundation The fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Environment (19%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
Who are Simons Family Foundation The's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ($8k), Yellowstone Forever ($5k), The Society of the Cincinnati ($4k).
Does Simons Family Foundation The fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Simons Family Foundation The 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 Simons Family Foundation The?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Simons Family Foundation The based?
Simons Family Foundation The is based in TX.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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