How much does Simpson Psb Fund give?

Simpson Psb Fund reported 34 grants totaling $17,408,345 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Simpson Psb Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (23%).

Who are Simpson Psb Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of California Berkeley Foundation ($14M), CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area ($5.2M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($5.1M).

Does Simpson Psb Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Simpson Psb Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Simpson Psb Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Where is Simpson Psb Fund based?

Simpson Psb Fund is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Simpson Psb Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 34
Grants FY2024: 35
Organizations funded FY2023: 20%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,020,372
Organizations funded a year: 35 to 56; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $128M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Simpson Psb Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	34	$17M	12%
FY2023	35	$14M	20%
FY2022	45	$3.8M	22%
FY2021	42	$3.0M	29%
FY2020	56	$7.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$17MHealth$11MArts & Culture$10MYouth Development$6.3MEnvironment$446kHousing & Shelter$393kHuman Services$103kFood & Nutrition$82kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of California Berkeley Foundation	$14,031,372	3	2%
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area	$5,155,075	2	24%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$5,115,473	3	1%
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County	$3,226,000	5	9%
Oakland Museum of California	$2,550,000	5	3%
Girlsmart Literacy Program	$2,550,000	4	100%
California College of the Arts	$1,706,689	5	1%
California Shakespeare Theater	$577,500	5	10%
Diablo Regional Arts Association	$381,000	5	23%
Life Learning Academy	$375,000	3	7%

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All grantees of Simpson Psb Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of California Berkeley Foundation	$14,031,372	3	2%
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area	$5,155,075	2	24%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$5,115,473	3	1%
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County	$3,226,000	5	9%
Oakland Museum of California	$2,550,000	5	3%
Girlsmart Literacy Program	$2,550,000	4	100%
California College of the Arts	$1,706,689	5	1%
California Shakespeare Theater	$577,500	5	10%
Diablo Regional Arts Association	$381,000	5	23%
Life Learning Academy	$375,000	3	7%
Big Wave Group	$325,000	4	31%
The Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc	$291,500	5	5%
New Literary Project	$245,000	4	36%
Oakland Leaf Foundation	$230,000	2	5%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation	$178,433	1	1%
Museum of Craft and Design	$155,000	5	2%
Northern Light School	$124,500	5	1%
Kala Art Institute	$121,000	5	2%
Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation	$108,000	4	3%
Northwest Maritime Center	$100,000	2	2%
The Underground Museum Inc	$90,000	1	7%
The Crucible	$83,500	4	2%
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc	$75,000	3	1%
Ecology Center	$75,000	1	1%
Las Trampas School Inc	$72,000	3	1%
Walnut Creek Library Foundation	$71,000	4	11%
Project Hope Alliance	$65,000	1	3%
Dance Downtown la Inc la Dance Project	$50,000	1	1%
First Place for Youth	$50,000	1	0%
The Ron Finley Project	$45,000	1	16%
John Muir Health Foundation	$40,000	4	0%
Futures Without Violence	$40,000	4	0%
Kennedy-King Memorial College Scholarship Fund Ltd	$30,000	3	3%
Transcendence Theatre Company	$25,000	1	1%
California Public Interest Research Group Edu Fund	$25,000	1	7%
The Zellerbach Family Foundation	$25,000	1	3%
Para Los Ninos	$25,000	1	0%
Compassion & Choices	$25,000	4	0%
Teach for America Inc	$21,500	4	0%
Association of California Symphony Orchestras	$20,000	4	3%
The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute	$19,500	3	1%
Uc Press Foundation	$17,000	3	1%
Creative Growth Art Center	$17,000	3	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$16,000	4	0%
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art	$15,000	2	1%
Families Without Borders	$13,500	3	13%
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	$12,500	2	0%
New Performance Traditions	$10,000	2	1%
Oxbow School	$10,000	1	n/a
Sierra Chamber Society	$10,000	2	n/a
Piedmont Makers	$10,000	2	3%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art	$8,000	2	0%
Playground	$6,000	1	1%
The Junior Center of Art and Science	$5,000	1	1%
La Casa de las Madres	$5,000	1	0%
Save Mount Diablo	$4,000	3	0%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Monument Crisis Center	$2,500	1	0%
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences	$1,000	1	0%
Berkeley Public Library Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Shelter Inc	$1,000	1	0%
California Public Interest Research Group Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Community Arts Foundation	$1,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.6M), not named here.

Simpson Psb Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 61.

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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.

East Bay Community FoundationCA37.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Justice Justice Foundation · William a Kerr Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Clif Family 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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About Simpson Psb Fund

How much does Simpson Psb Fund give?: Simpson Psb Fund reported 34 grants totaling $17,408,345 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Simpson Psb Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (23%).
Who are Simpson Psb Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of California Berkeley Foundation ($14M), CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area ($5.2M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($5.1M).
Does Simpson Psb Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Simpson Psb Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Simpson Psb Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Where is Simpson Psb Fund based?: Simpson Psb Fund is based in CA.