Minnesota · Private foundation
Simpson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $226k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $49,496
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $759k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Simpson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 30 | $220k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $230k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $188k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $253k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $101k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $101k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $135k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $169k | 65% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Academy Oic | $276,096 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $234,489 | 9 | 0% |
| Mightycause Charitable Foundation | $80,068 | 5 | 0% |
| Cupid Charities | $51,375 | 1 | 2% |
| Youable Emotional Health Services | $26,814 | 3 | 0% |
| Academy of the Holy Angels | $24,182 | 7 | n/a |
| Treehouse Inc | $20,280 | 3 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washburn High School Foundation | $15,593 | 6 | 2% |
| Northeast Youth & Family Services | $12,521 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($613k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Simpson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The K Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Kopp Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Simpson Family Foundation
- How much does Simpson Family Foundation give?
- Simpson Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $225,539 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Simpson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (15%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are Simpson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Summit Academy Oic ($276k), University of Minnesota Foundation ($234k), Mightycause Charitable Foundation ($80k).
- Does Simpson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simpson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Simpson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Simpson Family Foundation based?
- Simpson Family Foundation is based in MN.
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