How much does The Simson Foundation give?

The Simson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $3,015 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Simson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Religion (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Simson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Temple Israel ($6k), The Ohio State University ($5k), JewishColumbus ($2k).

Does The Simson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Simson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Simson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Columbus Jewish Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.

Where is The Simson Foundation based?

The Simson Foundation is based in OH.

The Simson Foundation

The Simson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Simson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$1k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

95% of The Simson Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Simson Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $3k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$38kReligion$9kArts & Culture$8kEducation$5kInternational$3kHealth$2kCivil Rights$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$550Other$0

02FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS OHIO	$1,100
JEWISH COLUMBUS	$400
BALLET METROPOLITAN INC	$200
PARTNERS IN HEALTH	$200
COLUMBUS ACADEMY	$125
CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC	$100
CML BUSTER FOUNDATION	$100
HIAS INC	$100
RYAN P MISSLER FOUNDATION	$100
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$100
COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS	$100
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST	$100
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC	$100
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC	$50
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE - A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST	$50

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $275) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$28k · 52 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 40 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$28k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+21%

Still filing today

60%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalHealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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JewishColumbus
5× · 2019–2023 · $2k · revenue +373%
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BALLET METROPOLITAN INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +43%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +120%

Funded once

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St Paul Lutheran Church
one grant, 2022 · $200
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2018 · $100
FO
FRIENDS OF TSAD KADIMAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +83%

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.

04Its field

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.

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Tsad Kadima. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 108 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/57

Grantees still filing

49/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$37,158Other$19,394Education$4,175Religion$3,005Arts & Culture$2,650International$1,700Health$1,505

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.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH33.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Meuse Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Simson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Simson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home