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Simpson Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
11
Organizations funded FY2018
9%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$500
Largest grant, FY2018
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
3
Total assets, FY2018
$92k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 9% of the organizations Simpson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201811$33k9%
FY201710$39kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$34kCivil Rights$28kHealth$5kEnvironment$4kScience & Tech$2kArts & Culture$700Youth Development$200

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks$28,00022%
Lawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation$25,00022%
Kansas Advocates for Better Care Inc$3,00020%
The Land Institute$1,50020%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$1,50020%
The Kansas Rural Center$1,50020%
Kansas Land Trust Inc$1,00020%
Sierra Club Foundation$1,00020%
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$70020%
Van Go Inc$20010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks: $28,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetKansas Advocates for Better Care Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Land Institute: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas Rural Center: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKansas Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Arts Center Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVan Go Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 10.

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.

Douglas County Commun…Topeka Community Foun…Kansas Health Foundat…Greater Kansas City C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Douglas County Community FoundationKS17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Douglas County Community Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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How do I get to Simpson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Simpson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Simpson Foundation

How much does Simpson Foundation give?
Simpson Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $33,400 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Simpson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (47%), Civil Rights (39%), Health (6%).
Who are Simpson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks ($28k), Lawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation ($25k), Kansas Advocates for Better Care Inc ($3k).
Does Simpson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Simpson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Simpson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Douglas County Community Foundation, Topeka Community Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation.
Where is Simpson Foundation based?
Simpson Foundation is based in KS.

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 11 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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