How much does The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation give?

The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $4,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (65%), Religion (17%), International (3%).

Who are The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Voice of Victory Bible Church Inc ($10k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($6k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($2k).

Does The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation based?

The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation is based in NJ.

The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation

The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Morton a & Phyllis 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.

$4k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$67kReligion$17kInternational$3kAnimals$3kArts & Culture$2kCivil Rights$2kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$145k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL	$400
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$200
ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$200
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$150
OPERATION SMILE INC	$150
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$150
ALS	$145
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK	$105
PROJECT K9 HERO	$100
SMILE TRAIN	$100
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$100
CANCER CARE	$100
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE	$100
THE VALERIE FUND	$100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$96k · 54 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$96k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+15%

Still filing today

70%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +4%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
5× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +126%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
4× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +49%

Funded once

RT
REFORM TEMPLE OF ROCKLAND
one grant, 2021 · $650
MF
MASS FUND OF FALLEN HEROES
one grant, 2019 · $500
IC
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +17%

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.

04Its field

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.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Aim At Melanoma

Aim at melanoma (aim) is globally engaged and locally invested in advancing the battle against melanoma through innovative research, legislative reform, education, and patient and caregiver support. founded in 2004, aim at melanoma is the…

Health

Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified

The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc

Ovarian cancer research alliance (ocra) is committed to preventing, developing better treatments for and ultimately curing ovarian and related gynecologic cancers through innovative research, raising awareness and ensuring the best care…

Philanthropy

Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 132 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

73/73

Grantees still filing

54/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$79,680Health$13,100International$3,790Arts & Culture$3,739Human Services$3,022Animals$1,950Religion$1,150

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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morton a & Phyllis Simon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home