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The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k74 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYEP | $10,245 |
| ST MARGARET'S FOUNDATION | $10,064 |
| IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $7,407 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $6,122 |
| PENNGIFT | $6,000 |
| OLD JOE CLUB CHARITIES | $4,200 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $3,000 |
| BRIAN DEMCHAK HOPE CHALLENGE | $2,771 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| ARCS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,675 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,506 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE MISSION | $2,260 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $2,221 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUM | $1,905 |
| GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION | $1,863 |
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 39 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- ARAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +136%
- SMST MARGARET FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +133%
- FLFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TFTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -30%
- SFSOF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Tri-State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
103 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. 103 of the 256 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds OLD JOE CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of Allegheny County ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Mel Douglass Fund ↗
- Who funds LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Freedom ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWINDS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE-RICHLAND YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Heinz Endowments
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 U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 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.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% 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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