How much does Simpkins Lee Foundation give?

Simpkins Lee Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $110,000, out of $210,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.

What does Simpkins Lee Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Employment (29%), Education (9%).

Who are Simpkins Lee Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Year Up Inc ($400k), Management Leadership for Tomorrow ($100k), Children's Museum of Manhattan ($100k).

Does Simpkins Lee Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Simpkins Lee Foundation 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.

Where is Simpkins Lee Foundation based?

Simpkins Lee Foundation is based in NY.

Foundation Dossiers

New York · Private foundation

Simpkins Lee Foundation

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.

$210k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 2
Itemized grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2022: 33%
First-time grantees FY2022

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Itemized, FY2024: $110k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 4; FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $3.1M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations Simpkins Lee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropy

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	2	$110k	50%
FY2022	3	$210k	33%
FY2021	4	$135k	75%
FY2020	3	$260k	67%
FY2019	1	$100k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$820kEmployment$500kEducation$160kArts & Culture$125kHealth$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Year Up Inc	$400,000	4	0%
Management Leadership for Tomorrow	$100,000	1	0%
Children's Museum of Manhattan	$100,000	1	2%
Grace Church School	$100,000	1	0%
Dalton Schools Inc	$60,000	1	0%
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Museum of Modern Art	$20,000	1	0%
The Jeffrey Ahn Jr Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	4%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simpkins Lee Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 8.

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About Simpkins Lee Foundation

How much does Simpkins Lee Foundation give?: Simpkins Lee Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $110,000, out of $210,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does Simpkins Lee Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Employment (29%), Education (9%).
Who are Simpkins Lee Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Year Up Inc ($400k), Management Leadership for Tomorrow ($100k), Children's Museum of Manhattan ($100k).
Does Simpkins Lee Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Simpkins Lee Foundation 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.
Where is Simpkins Lee Foundation based?: Simpkins Lee Foundation is based in NY.