· Private foundation
The Simms Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| BELFRY MUSIC THEATRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ADVOCATE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EMBERS ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES | $1,600 |
| RONALD MCDONALD | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| ST BENEDICT | $1,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| THE ARABIAN HORSEMEN'S DISTRESS FUND | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $500 |
| EVAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
118 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MMMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $321k · revenue +83%
- ACADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $303k · revenue +18%
- ATAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $91k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CCCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3.7M
- CCCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SIMMS FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SVSAINT VIATOR HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $11k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoag Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 173 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 Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMBERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds PARK RIDGE CIVIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD LIFE CARE FOUNDATION- B ↗
- Who funds BOCA BALLET THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARK RIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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: Kunes Family Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Shodeen Family Foundation · Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · Andrew Family Foundation · The Griffith Family Foundation · The John a Miller Family 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 Simms 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boca Ballet Theatre Company — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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.