How much did SIMPSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

SIMPSON FOUNDATION reported 11 grants totaling $33,400 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

Where is SIMPSON FOUNDATION based?

SIMPSON FOUNDATION is based in KS.

SIMPSON FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

SIMPSON FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$33k

Granted FY2018

Grants

Communities

$10k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k9 grants · $13k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$92k

Total assets

Largest grants

LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF KANSAS$10,000
COMMUNITY MERCANTILE EDUCATION FOUN$8,000
KANSAS ADVOCATES FOR BETTER CARE$2,000
KANSAS RURAL CENTER$1,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$500
KANSAS LAND TRUST$500
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$500
THE LAND INSTITUTE$500
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER$200
VAN GO$200

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 7%. 70% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Education

Sustainable Iowa Land Trust

To permanently protect iowa land to grow healthy food.

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

Urban Land Conservancy

Ulc manages affordable real estate to positively impact lives and communities in colorado.

Community Improvement

Institute for Conservation Leadership

Community Improvement

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

Conservation of unique character of tennessee's natural & historic landscapes & sites

Environment

Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

Nationally accredited land conservation trust

Environment

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Franklin Land Trust Inc

The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources

Environment

Katawba Valley Land Trust

The mission of the katawba valley land trust is to protect the natural resources, cultural resources, open lands, waters, and vistas of aesthetic value in the catawba river valley and surrounding areas.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Land Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

6/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$21,500Philanthropy$10,000Environment$1,000International$500Arts & Culture$200Education$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Douglas County Community FoundationKS16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Douglas County Community Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SIMPSON FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~72 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +97% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 481179872 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 72 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Simpson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Simpson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SIMPSON FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Simpson Foundation?

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SIMPSON FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Simpson Foundation?

More from the funding graph