California · Nonprofit
Symons Family Fund
Symons Family Fund (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,861 to it, the largest being Irving J Symons Foundation ($286,723). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Symons Family Fund is better cushioned than half of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Sonora Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Sonoralocal
- Women Giving as One Incportfolio match
- Simon Blattner Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
77% of Symons Family Fund’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $68k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Symons Family Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Symons Family Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of Symons Family Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Sonora Community Hospital dba Adventist Health SonoralocalCA · funds 18 organizations near you
- Women Giving as One Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simon Blattner Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sanderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Ynez Valley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of California Community Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hamel Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Codding Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Exchange Bank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vadasz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Symons Family Fund
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sonora Area Foundation · exempt
- Irving J Symons Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Symons Family Fund: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Symons Family Fund?
- Symons Family Fund (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,861 to it, the largest being Irving J Symons Foundation ($286,723). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Symons Family Fund have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $439,861 in grants to Symons Family Fund, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Symons Family Fund?
- Irving J Symons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $286,723 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Symons Family Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing