· Private foundation
The Cynthia L & William E Simon Jr Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $199,157 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $221,957 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k25 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saint Monica Parish Community | $50,000 |
| Williams College | $50,000 |
| UCLA Foundation | $25,000 |
| Palisades Will Rogers 5&10K Run Foundation | $15,000 |
| Police Athletic League | $12,500 |
| Public Art Fund | $10,000 |
| Access Youth Academy | $5,000 |
| St Kateri Institute | $5,000 |
| Williams College | $4,000 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | $2,500 |
| Seven Arrows Elementary School | $2,500 |
| Mission Basilica San Buenaventura | $2,000 |
| Madison Square Park Conservancy | $2,000 |
| The Clark Art Institute | $1,200 |
| Southern California Grant Makers | $1,100 |
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 +26% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PWPALISADES WILL ROGERS 5 & 10 K RUN FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +68%
- PAPUBLIC ART FUND INC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +34%
- RSRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PPPACIFIC PALISADES TASK FORCE ON HOMELESSNESSone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
- UBUC Berkeley Fundone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BABrentwood Art Centerone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Pacific collegiate school's mission is to provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of santa cruz county and bordering areas.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wounded Heroes of America a Non-Profit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 15. 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 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 47 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds PALISADES WILL ROGERS 5 & 10 K RUN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PALISADES TASK FORCE ON HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds City Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED HEROES OF AMERICA A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PALISADES COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.
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