Texas · Private foundation
The Simmons 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 130
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations The Simmons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 | 30 | $1.6M | 60% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $2.4M | 55% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $550k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $1.5M | 65% |
| FY2018 | 130 | $4.2M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 130 | $3.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association | $410,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $250,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lift Up of Routt County | $205,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc | $170,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Daya Inc | $162,000 | 3 | 7% |
| The Women's Resource of Greater Houston | $160,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Alliance for Justice | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Yampa Valley Autism Program | $140,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Yampa Valley Sustainability Council | $135,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 134 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 112 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Simmons 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Episcopal Health Foundation · Rockwell Fund Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab
How this is measured
About The Simmons Foundation
- How much does The Simmons Foundation give?
- The Simmons Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,712,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 130 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Simmons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (9%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Simmons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association ($410k), Kids' Meals Inc ($250k), Houston Area Women's Center ($250k).
- Does The Simmons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Simmons 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 Simmons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Houston, Houston Endowment Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is The Simmons Foundation based?
- The Simmons Foundation is based in TX.
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