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The Simard Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Simard Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$105kHuman Services$34kFood & Nutrition$29kHealth$16kPhilanthropy$15kEducation$13kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$762k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSS INTERNATIONAL$20,000
PALM BEACH HARVEST$13,000
HANLEY FOUNDATION$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
WHOLEHEARTED HOME$2,000
PARKINSONS FOUNDATION$2,000
PLACE OF HOPE$1,000
CARTER AND DANIELLE MCMASTERS$1,000
TWIN PALMS CENTER FOR DISABLED$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PLACE OF HOPE: $2k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $1k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 9 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$153k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+43%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthReligionInternationalEducationOther
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

  • CI
    Cross International Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +115%
  • SD
    Sweet Dream Makers Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +113%
  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • RB
    Restoration Bridge International Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +43%
  • HC
    HABILITATION CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • GT
    GOODY TWO SHOES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -4%
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.

1
Place of Hope International Inc
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2
Hogar Crea International of Florida
Health
3
Bridge of Hope Ministries Inc

Provide safe & loving home for children

Human Services
4
Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

—
5
His House Inc
Religion
6
Pinkys Promise Inc
Philanthropy
7
Be Hope International
Religion
8
Its 4 the Kids Inc

Its4thekids foundation focuses on helping children that are facing unique challenges to their health and well being. ricky patel founded and established its4thekids foundation to help with childrens causes. three primary areas of focus of…

Youth Development
9
Star of Hope Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Homeless Paradise Inc

Our mission is to ignite a chain of hope in society through appropriate programs that make a lasting difference in the lives of the people we care and support, but building better tomorrows for them and the generations.

Human Services
11
People to People Inc

Care of homeless children haiti

International
12
Found By Faith Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Place of Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cross International Inc: $93,000 · ReligionCross International IncRESTORATION BRIDGE FOOD BANK: $16,085 · OtherRESTORATION BRIDGE FOOD BA…HABILITATION CENTER: $12,500 · OtherHABILITATION CENTERTUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIO…TWIN PALMS CENTER FOR DISABLED: $3,000 · OtherTWIN PALMS CENTER FOR DISA…4 KIDS CORP: $5,500 · Other4 KIDS CORPBRONX SCHOOL FOR MUSIC INC: $5,000 · OtherBRONX SCHOOL FOR MUSIC INCTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $3,000 · OtherTHE LORD'S PLACE INC+1 more: $1,000 · OtherRestoration Bridge International Inc: $13,200 · Human ServicesRestoration Br…GOODY TWO SHOES INC: $11,840 · Human ServicesGOODY TWO SHOE…PLACE OF HOPE INC: $3,665 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE …Sweet Dream Makers Inc: $9,980 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPALM BEACH HARVEST INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionWHOLEHEARTED HOME INC: $12,000 · InternationalPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,885 · HealthSTOP CHILDREN'S CANCER OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $1,100 · Health
Religion$93,000Other$51,085Human Services$28,705Philanthropy$14,980Food & Nutrition$13,000International$12,000Health$7,985

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCross International Inc: $93,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRestoration Bridge International Inc: $13,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH HARVEST INC: $13,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWHOLEHEARTED HOME INC: $12,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGOODY TWO SHOES INC: $11,840 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $9,980 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,885 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX SCHOOL FOR MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $3,665 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP CHILDREN'S CANCER OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Simard Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Simard Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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