· Private foundation
Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVEDIRECTLY | $11,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $10,250 |
| MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| The Brigid Alliance | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| ARTSKC REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $6,000 |
| HARVESTERS THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $5,500 |
| HARM REDUCTION ACTION CENTER | $5,000 |
| INSULIN FOR LIFE USA INC | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBOR2NEIGHBOR KC | $5,000 |
| GREEN WORKS IN KANSAS CITY | $5,000 |
| KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MAMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +108%
GIVEDIRECTLY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +47%- TBTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NTNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -32%
- NANATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -43%
- K9KKFI 901 FM KC COMMUNITY RADIOone grant, 2022 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Trauma & Resilience Ctr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds Insulin For Life USA Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Green Works In Kansas City ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds The Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds N1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Shumaker Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.