· Private foundation
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEHGS | $5,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI | $3,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA | $1,750 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $750 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HOUSTON SPCA | $250 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $250 |
| CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION | $250 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $250 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $250 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $250 |
| AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND | $250 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its 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 +52% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +28%
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVER9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +688%
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI3× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- APAMERICAN PATRONS OF ST GEORGESone grant, 2024 · $5k
- P4Plymouth 400 Incone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -92%
- COCOLLEGE OF ARMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 44 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 Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds Plymouth 400 Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL EXOTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simons Family Foundation The funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simons Family Foundation The. Bigger dots raise more.
- Plymouth 400 Inc: 91% of income from government
- The New England Quarterly: 3% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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