Illinois · Private foundation
The Simon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $60M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Simon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 43 | $5.5M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $5.1M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $4.6M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $4.6M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $4.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $3.6M | 6% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $4.1M | 4% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $4.2M | 12% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donorschooseorg | $2,726,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $2,470,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $2,175,000 | 9 | 0% |
| A Silver Lining Foundation | $1,965,000 | 9 | 40% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $1,700,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Timeline Theatre Company | $1,590,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc | $1,455,000 | 9 | 3% |
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc | $1,340,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Spondylitis Association of America | $1,275,000 | 8 | 13% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $1,215,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Simon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Simon Family Foundation
- How much does The Simon Family Foundation give?
- The Simon Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $5,905,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Simon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Arts & Culture (17%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are The Simon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donorschooseorg ($2.7M), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($2.5M), Northern Illinois Food Bank ($2.2M).
- Does The Simon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Simon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Simon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is The Simon Family Foundation based?
- The Simon Family Foundation is based in IL.
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