· Private foundation
Simpson Foundation
Its FY2018 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 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k9 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF KANSAS | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MERCANTILE EDUCATION FOUN | $8,000 |
| KANSAS ADVOCATES FOR BETTER CARE | $2,000 |
| KANSAS RURAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE LAND INSTITUTE | $500 |
| KANSAS LAND TRUST | $500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $500 |
| VAN GO | $200 |
| LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +47% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF KS2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +163%
- LPLawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +97%
- TLThe Land Institute2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- VGVAN GO INCone grant, 2018 · $200 · revenue +1%
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
The mission of the land trust accreditation commission is to inspire excellence, promote public trust and ensure permanence in the conservation of open lands by recognizing land trust organizations that meet rigorous quality standards and…
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
To protect and defend the constitutional rights and civil liberties of every individual in kansas regardless of creed, race, religion, gender identification, or class.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
To strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans by providing legal research, advocacy, and education.
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.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF KS ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ADVOCATES FOR BETTER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS RURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KANSAS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simpson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simpson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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