California · Public charity
Symons Family Fund
The Mission of the Symons Family Fund is to benefit, perform the functions of, and carry out the purposes of the Sonora Area Foundation that engage in charitable activities which benefit the residents of Tuolumne County, California.
- $298k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $79k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $11,250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $31,575
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Symons Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $68k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $90k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $58k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $41k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $146k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $124k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $225k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $380k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mother Lode Christian School | $262,939 | 3 | 14% |
| Ravi Zacharias International Ministries | $235,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Tuolumne County Superintenden | $181,592 | 8 | n/a |
| Sonora High School | $120,729 | 6 | n/a |
| South Sacramento Christian Center Church | $61,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vidanet Inc | $33,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Interfaith Community Social Services | $26,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Downtown Cornerstone Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Sonora | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvary Chapel Sonora | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mother Lode Christian School | $262,939 | 3 | 14% |
| Ravi Zacharias International Ministries | $235,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Tuolumne County Superintenden | $181,592 | 8 | n/a |
| Sonora High School | $120,729 | 6 | n/a |
| South Sacramento Christian Center Church | $61,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vidanet Inc | $33,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Interfaith Community Social Services | $26,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Downtown Cornerstone Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Sonora | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvary Chapel Sonora | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| County of Tuolumne | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sonora Foursquare Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foothill Pregnancy Center | $15,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Summerville Elementary | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church of Sf | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| New Century Educators Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sierra Bible Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Resiliency Village | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Blessed Faith Church of God in Christ Inc | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tuolunme County Arts Alliance | $8,500 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
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: Sonora Area Foundation · Irving J Symons Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Symons Family Fund
- How much does Symons Family Fund give?
- Symons Family Fund reported 5 itemized grants totaling $78,865, out of $297,583 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Symons Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Philanthropy (34%), Religion (25%).
- Who are Symons Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mother Lode Christian School ($263k), Ravi Zacharias International Ministries ($235k), Tuolumne County Superintenden ($182k).
- Does Symons Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Symons Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonora Area Foundation, Irving J Symons Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Symons Family Fund based?
- Symons Family Fund is based in CA.
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