Delaware · Private foundation
Simple Paradox Union
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.
- $144k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of Simple Paradox Union’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $117,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 18
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- 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, 33% of the organizations Simple Paradox Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 16 | $27k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $32k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $35k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goggle Works | $39,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| West Reading Community Revitalization Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Montalvo Association | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Park Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| International Medical Corps | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wyomissing Public Library | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simple Paradox Union 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: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Simple Paradox Union
- How much does Simple Paradox Union give?
- Simple Paradox Union reported 17 grants totaling $144,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Simple Paradox Union fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Arts & Culture (13%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are Simple Paradox Union's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Goggle Works ($39k), Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank ($8k), West Reading Community Revitalization Foundation ($8k).
- Does Simple Paradox Union fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simple Paradox Union 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 Simple Paradox Union?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Simple Paradox Union based?
- Simple Paradox Union is based in DE.
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