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Simpson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$117kHealth$22kReligion$17kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$606k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greenwich Country Day School$10,579
St Francis of Assisi$5,355
Pencils of Promise$2,200
Bedford Playhouse$1,265
The Wings Club Foundation$1,000
Northern Westchester Hospital$1,000
St Patricks Church$1,000
Emergency Shelter Partnership$800
ReLove$637
PutnamNW Womens Resource Center$500
Silver Hill Hospital$500
Dickerson United Methodist Church$500
Restore the American Dream Foundati$500
Breast Cancer Alliance$395
Individual grant recipient$178
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 81% of grant dollars ($141k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($32k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $509) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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%Heartshare Human Services of NY: $509 → 20%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

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA

Beyond the US: 19% of all-years giving ($32k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Afghanistan$32k · 1 grant
Australia$637 · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 15 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
23

Total granted

$117k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+5%

Still filing today

40%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • GC
    GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +78%
  • LC
    LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
  • BP
    BEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $32k
  • DG
    Dr Gary Burnstein Community Clinic
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CC
    Carrington Charitable Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

21 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. 21 of the 49 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $31,695 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Francis of Assisi: $12,684 · OtherSt Francis of AssisiNorthern Westchester Hospital: $8,926 · OtherNorthern Westchester HospitalDr Gary Burnstein Community Clinic: $5,000 · OtherDr Gary Burnstein Community ClinicSt Patricks Church: $3,385 · OtherTranscendental Meditation Center: $3,380 · Other+32 more: $17,516 · Other+32 moreGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $57,748 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE+1 more: $100 · EducationPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $19,200 · InternationalPENCILS OF P…Carrington Charitable Foundation: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,713 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $42 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR LEAGUE OF CENTRAL WESTCHESTER INC: $1,069 · Community ImprovementWhite Plains Lacrosse Association Inc: $500 · Recreation & SportsMCG HIT-N-RUN INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$82,586Education$62,848International$19,200Philanthropy$5,100Arts & Culture$1,755Community Improvement$1,069Recreation & Sports$1,000

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 budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $57,748 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $19,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCarrington Charitable Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,713 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF CENTRAL WESTCHESTER INC: $1,069 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP: $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $509 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Lacrosse Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMCG HIT-N-RUN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $395 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY: $285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISSUE ONE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $42 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 GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Carrington Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CENTRAL WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds White Plains Lacrosse Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MCG HIT-N-RUN INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
  • Who funds PKD 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Simpson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simpson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 49 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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