· Private foundation
The Simpson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $328k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Samaritans Purse | $450,000 |
| Miracle Hill Ministries Inc | $400,000 |
| Brookgreen Gardens | $250,000 |
| Converse College | $170,000 |
| Presbyterian College | $150,000 |
| Anderson University | $110,000 |
| Bon Secours St Francis Health Systems | $100,000 |
| Law Enforcement Chaplaincy for | $65,000 |
| Young Life | $45,000 |
| PCSC Foundation | $35,000 |
| Christ Community Church Montreat | $35,000 |
| Theology Matters | $30,000 |
| Harold C Jennings Foundation | $25,000 |
| HIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| The Museum Association Inc | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +134%
- MHMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +49%
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE5× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TBTHE BASCOM CENTERone grant, 2017 · $81k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $75k
MONTREAT COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +68%
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 67 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 BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours St Francis Health System Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PCSC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harold C Jennings Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL ↗
- Who funds MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Theology Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear Academy ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINK INC ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
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: Harvest Charities · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% 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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