· Private foundation
The Simpson Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $52,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $34,400 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY | $27,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA | $23,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $21,600 |
| ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY | $19,800 |
| ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $14,400 |
| COASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA | $9,200 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $9,000 |
| SOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $7,200 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $7,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $3,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT HUNTSVILLE | $3,600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your 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.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
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
- HCHUNTINGDON COLLEGE3× · 2018–2020 · $14k · revenue +13%
- FUFAULKNER UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +51%
- FVFORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2019–2022 · $10k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FIFORTIS INSTITUTE - BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2024 · $2k
- EWEdward Waters University Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +50%
Samford Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +61%
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 mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
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…
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
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 Samford University and the most unlike its peers is Fort Valley State College National Alumni Association Inc. 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 66 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 55 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 Miles College Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Talladega College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds Stillman College ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
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: Allyrae Wallace Educational Trust · Alabama Association of Independent Colleges and Universities · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · The Mabel Amos Memorial Fund Regions Bank Trustee · Naphcare Charitable Foundation Inc · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · United Negro College Fund Inc · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Edward Waters University Inc — 15% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 2% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.