· Private foundation
Taylor M and Evelyn W Simpson Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| NEWBERRY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BERRY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| SALEM COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| GUILFORD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +81%
- NCNEWBERRY COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +8%
- FMFlorida Memorial University Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- RMRANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE FBOone grant, 2023 · $8k
- LCLUTHER COLLEGE FBO OLIVIA RAWLYKone grant, 2022 · $4k
- RMRANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE FBO AUDRI CROUCHone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Lutheran College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Columbia International University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 84 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWBERRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Florida Memorial University Inc ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 organization Taylor M and Evelyn W Simpson Fdn 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
- Florida Memorial University Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.