Missouri · 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.
- $166k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $166k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $161k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $156k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $165k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $108k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $102k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make the Road New York | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Insulin For Life USA Inc | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Brigid Alliance Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $28,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Green Works In Kansas City | $28,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $28,123 | 6 | 0% |
| Kansas City Pet Project | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn
- How much does Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn give?
- Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn reported 42 grants totaling $165,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Make the Road New York ($48k), Insulin For Life USA Inc ($35k), Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City ($32k).
- Does Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn 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 Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn based?
- Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn is based in MO.
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