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William & Hope G Simpson 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations William & Hope G Simpson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$1.3M0%
FY202315$302k27%
FY202217$614k6%
FY20217$506k0%
FY202019$352k11%
FY201919$421k21%
FY201817$183k18%
FY201718$192kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.1MHealth$332kYouth Development$258kPhilanthropy$79kHuman Services$73kPublic Benefit$53kEnvironment$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
AZ
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

William & Hope G Simpson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiddlesex School: $1,835,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetInternational Skydiving Museum & Hall of Fame: $858,500 over 7y, 71% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $141,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Boys' Club of New York: $94,874 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJupiter Island Medical Clinic Inc: $83,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetThe Fay School Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHobe Sound Community Chest Inc: $78,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $73,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $52,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe North Shore Land Alliance Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Guardians of Martin County Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budget1000 Friends of Florida Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Martin County: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Hospital Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to William & Hope G Simpson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William & Hope G Simpson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About William & Hope G Simpson Foundation

How much does William & Hope G Simpson Foundation give?
William & Hope G Simpson Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,293,111 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does William & Hope G Simpson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Recreation & Sports (28%), Health (9%).
Who are William & Hope G Simpson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Middlesex School ($1.8M), International Skydiving Museum & Hall of Fame ($859k), Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ($141k).
Does William & Hope G Simpson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William & Hope G Simpson 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 William & Hope G Simpson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is William & Hope G Simpson Foundation based?
William & Hope G Simpson Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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