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The Simon Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$9.0MArts & Culture$6.0MFood & Nutrition$4.4MEducation$4.3MInternational$3.0MHuman Services$1.9MEmployment$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.2M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$400,000
TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY$370,000
A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION CHICAGOLAND CANCER INFO COALITION$325,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$300,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$300,000
DONORSCHOOSE ORG$300,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND INC$250,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$200,000
PROVIDENCE ST MEL SCHOOL$160,000
CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST$160,000
SPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA$150,000
HONEST GAME FOUNDATION$150,000
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC$150,000
MAYO CLINIC$150,000
ASPIRITECH NFP$130,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $45k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $10k → 14%ASPIRITECH NFP: $250k → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $150k → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $130k → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $130k → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $100k → 8%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $50k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ASPIRITECH NFP: $75k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $150k → 14%ASPIRITECH NFP: $50k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $125k → 14%ASPIRITECH NFP: $35k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $125k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $125k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $115k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $100k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $100k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $100k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $50k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $50k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $50k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $50k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $50k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $125k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $100k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $35k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $40k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$34M · 59 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
8

Total granted

$34M
$470k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+73%

Still filing today

92%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +24%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +140%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SF
    SPONDYLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +82%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
2
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
5
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scientists Society of Southwest Florida. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Dance Arts OrganizationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsYouth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr22%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr22%26%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,297

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.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 71 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
48/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,000,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANC…MAYO CLINIC — $965,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICBeyond Sports Foundation — $740,000 · OtherBeyond Sports FoundationStorycatchers — $700,000 · OtherStorycatchersMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $535,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILL…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $510,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUND…Providence St Mel School — $510,000 · OtherProvidence St Mel SchoolISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $410,000 · OtherAlbany Park Theater Project — $690,000 · OtherAlbany Park Theater ProjectNorthwestern University — $785,000 · OtherNorthwestern UniversityCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $570,000 · OtherCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY+16 more — $1,922,000 · Other+16 moreA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION — $1,685,000 · HealthA SILVER LINING F…SPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $1,075,000 · HealthSPONDYLITIS ASSOC…Planned Parenthood of Illinois — $875,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthoo…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations — $760,000 · HealthEndeavor Health C…THE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION — $550,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON CHANC…MAYO CLINIC — $300,000 · HealthPADS Lake County Inc — $235,000 · Health+3 more — $240,000 · HealthJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,370,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,250,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $1,140,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,065,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $420,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…+1 more — $100,000 · InternationalTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY — $1,550,000 · Arts & CultureTIMELINE THEATRE…HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $1,305,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORI…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $630,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WO…Writers Theatre Inc — $395,000 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre …RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $325,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL…CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $325,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC M…OLIVE TREE ARTS NETWORK NFP — $260,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago — $225,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $85,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,070,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICA…NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $1,775,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLI…CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $430,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR SC…DONORSCHOOSEORG — $2,426,000 · EducationDONORSCHOO…WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $570,000 · EducationWORKING IN…Honest Game Foundation — $200,000 · EducationHonest Gam…+5 more — $280,000 · Education+5 moreTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $965,000 · Human ServicesASPIRITECH NFP — $920,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME — $450,000 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $260,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $175,000 · Human Services+1 more — $65,000 · Human Services
Other$9,337,000Health$5,720,000International$5,345,000Arts & Culture$5,100,000Food & Nutrition$4,275,000Education$3,476,000Human Services$2,835,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $2,426,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,070,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $1,775,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION — $1,685,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY — $1,550,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,370,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $1,305,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,250,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $1,140,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $1,075,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,065,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $965,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetASPIRITECH NFP — $920,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $875,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwestern University — $785,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations — $760,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Sports Foundation — $740,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetStorycatchers — $700,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetAlbany Park Theater Project — $690,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $630,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $570,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $570,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION — $550,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $535,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $510,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetProvidence St Mel School — $510,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $450,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $430,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $420,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $410,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc — $395,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $325,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $325,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $260,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOLIVE TREE ARTS NETWORK NFP — $260,000 over 7y, 53% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc — $235,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSunbird Initiative — $220,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHonest Game Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetLES TURNER AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION LTD — $185,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCURT'S CAFE — $175,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO — $170,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budget
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 DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds Beyond Sports Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Storycatchers ↗
  • Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds OLIVE TREE ARTS NETWORK NFP ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationJewish Federation of …John D and Catherine …Circle of Service Fou…Lloyd a Fry FoundationFirst Bank Chicago Fo…Helen V Brach Foundat…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…
The Chicago Community TrustIL23.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Simon 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Simon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Simon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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