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The Simmons Family Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Simmons Family Charitable Fund | $1,106,294 |
| OSF Healthcare Foundation | $300,000 |
| Lantern Network | $275,000 |
| Alton Mission Free Methodist Church | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation | $10,000 |
| 100 Black Men of America Inc | $10,000 |
| Marquette Catholic High School | $9,000 |
| Alton Main Street | $8,000 |
| The Bridge Church - St Louis | $7,200 |
| Friends of the Isreal Defense Forces | $4,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $3,400 |
| Southern Illinois University Foundation | $1,000 |
| Quantum Leap Farm Inc | $1,000 |
| Good Samaritan House | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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 +100% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- LNLANTERN NETWORK2× · 2018–2019 · $325k · revenue +177% · 39% of their budget
- SISOUTHERN ILLINOIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +32%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- ULUNITY LUTHERAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $100k
- CACHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -40%
- LOLand of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundationone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The hospital is a catholic health care organization sponsored by the sisters of st. casimir. by our commitment to witness to the healing mission of jesus, we contribute to healthy communities and promote quality health care to all with…
Decatur memorial hospital (dmh) serves the healthcare needs of the people of central illinois through operation of a 280-bed acute care hospital and related facilities providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and physician services.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. founded in community-based legacies of compassionate healing, we…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
St. catherine hospital, inc. is committed to providing the highest quality care in the most cost-efficient manner, respecting the dignity of the individual, providing for the well-being of the community and serving the needs of all people,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Simmons Mesothelioma Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 LANTERN NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTON MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ALTON LITTLE THEATER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Simmons Mesothelioma Foundation ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM LEAP FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOUSE OF GRANITE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Room at the Inn ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Simmons Family Foundation 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.
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.
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