· Private foundation
The Simmons Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTA CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| L'ARCHE ATLANTA | $75,000 |
| PACE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| MOREHOUSE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| WARNER VILLAGE | $45,000 |
| THEATRICAL OUTFIT | $25,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| COLORADO HOSTING ASYLUM NETWORK | $20,000 |
| AKOLA ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| HAY ADAMS GIVING FUND | $10,000 |
| DENVER INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & WORK | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR A COURSE IN MIRACLES | $10,000 |
| EXPERIENCE REALITY | $10,000 |
| ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k 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
- PAPACE ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +15%
- FOFRIENDS OF LARCHE ATLANTA INC2× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +18% · 36% of their budget
- MCMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CFCHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +78%
- PCPEACE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -2%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATERone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Santa Fe Opera and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 54 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 The Theatrical Outfit Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LARCHE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HOSTING ASYLUM NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE REALITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AKOLA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A COURSE IN MIRACLES ↗
- Who funds The Denver Institute ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE'S GIFT ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS TRAIL CONSERVANCY 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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 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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