· Private foundation
Simpson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC | $49,496 |
| MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $29,072 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $27,512 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,982 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,385 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,769 |
| NORTHEAST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $5,021 |
| SUMMIT FOUNDATION | $4,124 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,400 |
| WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of Simpson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
69 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASUMMIT ACADEMY OIC9× · 2017–2025 · $276k · revenue +39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $234k · revenue +105%
- MCMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- CCCUPID CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue -99%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -18%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
How this is measured
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 164 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUPID CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds YOUABLE EMOTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simpson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simpson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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