Minnesota · Nonprofit
SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC
SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,631,735 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,306,385). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 113
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Simpson Housing Services Inc does
Mission
Simpson housing services' mission is to house, support, & advocate for people experiencing homelessness. We know that with close, individual advocacy & support individuals & families experiencing homelessness achieve housing stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In fy2025, we partnered with four new housing developments to provide housing opportunities for individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness. When at capacity, the new developments will add 32 new units of housing for single adults, and 13 new units for families. Our single housing program expanded by 33% in fy25 due to the new partnerships.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Simpson decided in september 2024 that we would discontinue our participation in the housing trust program (htf), administered by minnesota housing; at simpson we refer to this program as the rental assistance program (rap). The htf does not fund the supportive services that are needed to help families stabilize in housing and prevent returns to homelessness. We decided to focus on program models which do fund services, as they are more sustainable for the long-term health of simpson, and provide positive outcomes for participants. We ceased new intakes for the program in september 2024. In january 2025, lutheran social services (lss) agreed to take the five remaining families in our program and simpson transferred the families to lss in april 2025. Our children and youth services program expanded the passage tutoring program and now offers tutoring at both passage community and the ernestine apartments. Due to this expansion, in fy2025, 97 families with 145 young people were supported in the education support program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Youth and family housing: families who are experiencing homelessness receive intensive case management, support services, and subsidized rental housing. Most of the families we work with have significant barriers to their future housing stability. Emphasis is placed on partnering with families to quickly secure stable housing. Individualized services are focused on life skills, positive parenting, education, and employment to help families achieve long-term housing stability and success. Uniquely, this program uses subsidized, supportive rental housing for families with children, both site-based and scattered-site. In fiscal year 2025 we worked with 308 families with 591 children. We also worked with 41 youth, ages 18-24, at a site-based housing program in fy2025.
$4,863,131 spent$2,166,450 earned by the program43% of program spendingEmergency shelter: provides shelter to 64 single individuals, including a bed, three meals, housing and benefit referral services, showers, laundry, a savings program, employment listings, as well as mental and physical healthcare resources. A housing navigator assists with assisting shelter guests to obtain housing. Thousands of hours of service are provided by volunteers. In fiscal year 2025, 326 individuals, including 204 men and 122 women received a bed at the shelter, and 91 guests were moved directly from the shelter into stable housing. Shelter operations remain at the interim site. The new simpson shelter and apartments, a modern and dignified facility, will replace the shelter, have 72 shelter beds, and add 42 units of deeply affordable housing. The new site is projected to open in january 2026.
$2,204,730 spent19% of program spendingSingle adult housing: simpson provides support to single individuals who have experienced homelessness through three housing programs: the women's housing partnership, opportunity housing partnership, and ramsey county single adult programs. Intensive support and case management services are a key component of participant success. In fiscal year 2025, simpson housing services provided permanent, subsidized, supportive rental housing for a total of 270 single individuals who have been homeless long-term, programs include:the women's housing partnership is a supportive housing program for women and nonbinary individuals who face long-term-homelessness. Staff work intensively with program participants to forge ongoing relationships that foster individual strength, housing stability, and progress toward personal goals. Opportunity housing partnership is a collaboration between simpson, aeon, and avivo to provide supportive services in two housing communities in downtown minneapolis. The properties offer efficiency apartments for long-term homeless individuals. Residents are connected to ongoing case management and opportunities for community engagement. Simpson's ramsey county single…
$4,284,247 spent38% of program spendingChildren and youth services: simpson's dual focus on family support and children's programming is unique among organizations providing services to families experiencing homelessness. Dedicated family support specialists help connect parents to our children and youth services programs to provide specific support to children. In fiscal year 2025, 151 families with 174 children participated in one or more of the following programs: early childhood, youth tutoring, youth group mentoring, and education support programs.early childhood program: the early childhood program uses a home visiting model to promote the healthy development of young children and their families. Goals for the program include on-track developmental growth, parental engagement in literacy and language activities, and placement in high-quality childcare. Staff partners with parents to provide the support and resources to ensure their children are ready for kindergarten through a combination of wellness, developmental, and educational support services. Youth tutoring program: educational support advocates and highly trained literacy volunteers work closely with children and families to improve reading and academic…
$24,161 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,376,269.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $34M (+123%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 61% · 2018 60% · 2019 40% · 2020 55% · 2021 64% · 2022 50% · 2023 56% · 2024 70% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Steve Horsfield
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $529k → $1.6M.
24 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 29% · 2019 59% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
85% of SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$7.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Passage Community Housing LLC · disregarded
- Simpson Properties LLC · disregarded
- Simpson Real Estate Holding Company · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC?
- SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,631,735 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,306,385). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $14,631,735 in grants to SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,306,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 113 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing