Ohio · Private foundation
The Simmons Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,780
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Simmons Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $38k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $46k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $61k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dillard University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Morehouse College | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Spelman College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Institute for Global Outreach Inc | $21,280 | 4 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ebenezer Baptist Church | $17,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutie Legacy Society | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Calvin Peete Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dillard University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Morehouse College | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Spelman College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Institute for Global Outreach Inc | $21,280 | 4 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ebenezer Baptist Church | $17,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutie Legacy Society | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Calvin Peete Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Silverback Society | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Catwalk Pros Academy | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| African American Museum | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Safespace Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Atlanta Union Mission Corporation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shih Tzu Rescue Inc | $900 | 2 | 0% |
| The New School Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Simmons Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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
About The Simmons Family Foundation
- How much does The Simmons Family Foundation give?
- The Simmons Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $37,780 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Simmons Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Civil Rights (26%), Religion (9%).
- Who are The Simmons Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($80k), Dillard University ($50k), Morehouse College ($32k).
- Does The Simmons Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Simmons Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Simmons Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Simmons Family Foundation based?
- The Simmons Family Foundation is based in OH.
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