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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 FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$143kHealth$109kArts & Culture$104kCivil Rights$85kCrime & Legal$57kEnvironment$56kAnimals$55kEducation$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
$3,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVEDIRECTLY$11,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$10,250
The Brigid Alliance$10,000
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$6,000
ARTSKC REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL$6,000
HARVESTERS THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$5,500
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$5,000
KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC$5,000
INSULIN FOR LIFE USA INC$5,000
GREEN WORKS IN KANSAS CITY$5,000
NEIGHBOR2NEIGHBOR KC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$5,000
HARM REDUCTION ACTION CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GiveDirectly: $10k → 17%THE CENTER FOR TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE: $3k → 12%THE CENTER FOR TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE: $3k → 12%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%The Brigid Alliance: $10k → 17%THE CENTER FOR TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE: $3k → 12%The Brigid Alliance: $5k → 17%The Brigid Alliance: $5k → 17%THE CENTER FOR TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE: $3k → 12%THE CENTER FOR TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$773k · 44 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
15

Total granted

$773k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MA
    METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +108%
  • GIVEDIRECTLY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +47%
  • TB
    THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -32%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -100%
  • K9
    KKFI 901 FM KC COMMUNITY RADIO
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Npr Foundation

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…

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4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
9
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
12
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHAIN OF HOPE KANSAS CITY: $28,000 · OtherCHAIN OF HOPE KANSAS CITYKansas City CARE Clinic: $27,000 · OtherKansas City CARE ClinicNEWHOUSE INC: $24,000 · OtherNEWHOUSE INCKANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $18,000 · OtherInsulin For Life USA Inc: $34,500 · OtherInsulin For Life USA IncHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $28,500 · OtherHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORKPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $26,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20,000 · OtherNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $14,500 · Other+23 more: $159,750 · Other+23 moreGreen Works In Kansas City: $28,500 · EducationGreen Works …OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $28,123 · EducationOPERATION BR…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $14,500 · EducationAMERICAN IND…ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $11,000 · EducationANTHOLOGY FI…BICYCLE COLORADO: $6,500 · EducationBICYCLE COLO…+2 more: $5,000 · Education+2 moreMake the Road New York: $47,500 · Crime & LegalMake the R…METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $17,500 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLIT…FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $9,000 · Crime & LegalFLORENCE I…+1 more: $2,500 · Crime & LegalGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIREC…THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGI…The Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR: $13,000 · Human ServicesThe Cente…METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $32,000 · Arts & CultureN1 FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Arts & CultureLIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSCREEN SLATE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $27,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $15,000 · Civil RightsKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $27,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $12,500 · AnimalsWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $10,500 · AnimalsCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $2,000 · Animals+2 more: $2,500 · Animals
Other$428,750Education$93,623Crime & Legal$76,500Human Services$74,000Arts & Culture$66,500Civil Rights$62,500Animals$55,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMake the Road New York: $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInsulin For Life USA Inc: $34,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $32,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Works In Kansas City: $28,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $28,123 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetN1 FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: $11,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $11,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCREEN SLATE INC: $5,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY IMMIGRANT RESOURCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESTES VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Green Works In Kansas City ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • 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 AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • 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 LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simonson Fam Charitable Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 64 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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