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The Simpson 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TinCup Charity Group | $11,000 |
| BRENTWOODBAPTIST | $10,000 |
| BRENTWOODBAPTIST | $10,000 |
| Farm 127 | $5,000 |
| DSAMT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GiGis Playhouse Nashv | $5,000 |
| Best Buddies | $5,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES | $3,087 |
| DSAMT | $3,000 |
| Brightstone | $3,000 |
| Limestone Title Golf T | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| BEST BUDDIES | $2,573 |
| In His Grip Ministries | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- TCTINCUP CHARITY GROUP INC3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +74%
Best Buddies International Inc2× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +43%- IHIN HIS GRIP MINISTRIES3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- RGRowen Glenn Center Brentwood Baptistone grant, 2024 · $10k
- BBBrentwood Baptist Church Budgetone grant, 2024 · $8k
- BTBestBuddies TN reimb to Alex Mastercardone grant, 2024 · $7k
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.
Faith Through Fire holds space for men and women to heal emotionally from the trauma of breast cancer. Their mission is to reduce the fear and anxiety breast cancer patients feel and replace it with hope and a path toward thriving. They…
Refresh host encourage mentor those in ministry
Our mission is to come alongside families in an effort to make memories that transcend time. we seek to encourage and strengthen families with school-aged children where a parent or child has cancer. our focus is to battle fear by infusing…
The great commission outreach is a partnership of believers on a global mission to spread god's word by helping others in need. with a focus on medical outreach, we provide hope through healing, success through sacrifice, and faith through…
The organization provides biblical counseling, small-group instruction, and occasional retreats to help individuals and families improve their spiritual, emotional, and relational well-being. counseling is offered through one-on-one or…
Cancer survivors to go on a healing retreat
Prg provides healthy meals, rides to treatment, house cleaning essentials kits and peer support to breast and gynecological cancer patients and their families independent of age, stage or socio-economic status and free of charge. prg's…
God's Pantry exists to extend a helping hand, to the needy, by providing food to anyone who is facing circumstances beyond their control. The pantry serves all people, with respect and compassion, allowing them to maintain their…
To make available internationally, the message of the gospel through radio and television networks.
The organization wants to spread the gospel of jesus christ through word and deed. the organization accomplishes this purpose through various types of christian based conferences.
The brent eley foundation (dba brent's place) is committed to being a safe, supportive, long-term home filled with hope for families facing a life-threatening medical crisis. in addition to independent living accommodations, brent's place…
To deliver food to households of people in need, creating an opportunity for engagement, informal conversation and encouragement, and additional avenues of service and support between church-sponsored volunteers, the organization, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is FARM127. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 41 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 TINCUP CHARITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FARM127 ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds IN HIS GRIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TROY GENTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAVES OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Simpson 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.
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