Texas · Private foundation
The Virginia & le Simmons 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.
- $395k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,220
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $394k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $1.8M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $796k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.3M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $717k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Children's Hospital | $1,115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $566,209 | 3 | 0% |
| The George and Barbara Bush Foundation | $534,410 | 6 | 3% |
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $520,267 | 5 | 1% |
| California Institute of Technology | $430,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Center for Hearing and Speech | $274,562 | 3 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $53,800 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Houston Endowment Inc · The Moody Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation with peer funders
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About The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation
- How much does The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation give?
- The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $395,074 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (22%), Science & Tech (12%).
- Who are The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Texas Children's Hospital ($1.1M), William Marsh Rice University ($566k), The George and Barbara Bush Foundation ($534k).
- Does The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Virginia & le Simmons 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 Virginia & le Simmons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation based?
- The Virginia & le Simmons Foundation is based in TX.
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