California · Private foundation
The Simmsmann Family 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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,393,656
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $71M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Simmsmann Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 52 | $1.7M | 88% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.9M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $2.7M | 59% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Foundation | $4,500,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Simmsmann Institute for Education and Community Development | $750,000 | 2 | 99% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $600,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $300,000 | 4 | n/a |
| El Nido Family Centers | $190,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Organization for Social Media Safety | $152,500 | 2 | 14% |
| Geffen Playhouse Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $101,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | $98,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Simmsmann Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Goldhirsh Yellin Foundation Inc · Rja Foundation · Strauss Foundation Td · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
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About The Simmsmann Family Foundation
- How much does The Simmsmann Family Foundation give?
- The Simmsmann Family Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $3,142,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Simmsmann Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Arts & Culture (25%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Simmsmann Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Academy Foundation ($4.5M), Simmsmann Institute for Education and Community Development ($750k), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($600k).
- Does The Simmsmann Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Simmsmann Family 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 Simmsmann Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is The Simmsmann Family Foundation based?
- The Simmsmann Family Foundation is based in CA.
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