· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Simpson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Simpson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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