· Private foundation
The David L Simon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDBAR KODESH TEMPLE | $114,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,850 |
| COLLABORATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $4,300 |
| VIMA CHILDREN'S HOME | $4,000 |
| IMPROVE CARE NOW | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +37% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MKMIDBAR KODESH TEMPLE9× · 2017–2025 · $793k
- TUTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA4× · 2017–2020 · $54k · revenue +43%
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2020–2025 · $31k
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF LVone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CCCLARK COUNTRY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $2k
- DMDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +42%
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.
To provide a jewish day school for the children of las vegas
To provide religious and educational programs for college students and young professionals in las vegas and reno nevada. activities include classes, individualized bible study sessions,sabbath services and programs and religious retreats.
To promote the religious, spiritual, cultural and social traditions of Judaism through a variety of educational and communal activity and holy day observances
Medical education, scientific research, and patient care.
Hillel at unm is the center for jewish student and young professional life in albuquerque, new mexico.
Create a world class center of excellence and innovation for medical education, patient care, and research that prepares nevada's physicians with the most advanced knowledge, treatments, and technologies while serviing heath care needs of…
To operate jewish high school for girls in las vegas, nv.
To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.
To enrich the jewish community of greater las vegas with the joy, vitality and warmth of torah study.
To provide a high quality religious and secular education for grades pre-k through 8.
The organization's primary exempt purpose involves jewish education primarily to unaffiliated and minority or marginally affiliated jewish students on university campuses throughout southern california.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
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- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA YOUTH NETWORK ↗
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: 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 The David L Simon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David L Simon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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