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Arnold Salter Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Animals$382kEducation$128kPhilanthropy$101kEnvironment$53kHousing & Shelter$30kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$15kArts & Culture$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$50,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON$20,000
DOVE LEWIS HOSPITAL$10,000
HUMANE COLORADO$10,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIATY$10,000
THE SCRATCHING POST$5,000
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HIGHER GROUND: $10k → 15%PASADENA HUMANE SOCIATY: $10k → 14%THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%PRATT INSTITUTE: $25k → 20%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY: $1k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PORTLAND: $100k → 8%DOVE LEWIS HOSPITAL: $10k → 12%HUMANE COLORADO: $10k → 12%THE SCRATCHING POST: $5k → 16%HIGHER GROUND: $10k → 15%CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI: $1k → 16%DOVE LEWIS HOSPITAL: $5k → 12%SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $5k → 16%HIGHER GROUND: $5k → 15%THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%DOVE LEWIS HOSPITAL: $5k → 12%THE SCRATCHING POST: $2k → 16%HIGHER GROUND: $5k → 15%THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 12%THE SCRATCHING POST: $1k → 16%HIGHER GROUND: $5k → 15%THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 12%THE SCRATCHING POST: $1k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $15k → 15%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $15k → 15%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10k → 15%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10k → 15%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 12%TUSCON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10k → 15%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 12%TUSCON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10k → 15%OREGON FOOD BANK: $15k → 12%TUSCON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10k → 15%COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON: $20k → 12%TUSCON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10k → 15%COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON: $15k → 12%TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $5k → 15%COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON: $15k → 12%TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $5k → 15%COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON: $15k → 12%COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON: $10k → 12%COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON: $10k → 12%COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

Which US states your grants reach

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$571k · 10 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$571k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+79%

Still filing today

60%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +60%
  • HS
    Humane Society of Southern Arizona
    4× · 2019–2022 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • TB
    TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • PI
    PRATT INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +34%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • SE
    SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
2
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
3
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
4
Humane Society of Fremontcounty Inc

Operate as an open-admission animal shelter dedicated to helping every animal in need. provide animals in need with a safe and loving home until they find their forever home.

Animals
5
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
6
Animal Humane Association of New Mexico Inc

Line 4a - first accomplishment we operate a 25,000 square-foot thrift shop, located at 5341 menaul blvd. ne, which is filled with gently used and new items generously donated by our community. the vast offerings, which include clothing,…

Animals
7
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc

To protect and enhance the lives of companion animals by promoting healthy relationships between pets and people. hsbv is an open admission, socially conscious shelter. hsbv provides safety net services, comprehensive adoption matching for…

Animals
8
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
9
Juneau Animal Rescue

To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.

Animals
10
Friends of Oakland Animal Services

Our mission is to provide homes, health, and happiness to oakland's animals in need. our primary focus has been to fund programs and activities at oakland animal services to greatly increase lifesaving of shelter animals.

Animals
11
Humane Society Silicon Valley

At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)

Animals
12
Animal Protection New Mexico

To protect animals by creating systemic change resulting in the humane treatment of all animals. we create policies, infrastructure, and services that protect animals and strengthen our communities, and we design and implement humane and…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Pratt Institute. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $295,300 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETYHumane Society of Southern Arizona — $50,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of Southern Arizona+4 more — $36,500 · Animals+4 moreCOLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON — $95,000 · OtherCOLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGONHIGHER GROUND — $35,000 · OtherHIGHER GROUNDDOVE LEWIS HOSPITAL — $20,000 · OtherDOVE LEWIS HOSPITALOREGON FOOD BANK — $15,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANK+3 more — $10,000 · Other+3 moreJewish Federation of Greater Portland — $100,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federati…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS — $50,000 · EnvironmentPRATT INSTITUTE — $25,000 · EducationTHE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $9,000 · Education
Animals$381,800Other$175,000Philanthropy$101,000Environment$50,000Education$34,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $295,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Portland — $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS — $50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRATCHING POST INC — $11,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Portland
  • Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona
  • Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS
  • Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK
  • Who funds SCRATCHING POST INC
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
  • Who funds PASADENA HUMANE
  • Who funds THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE ACCESS FUND
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× 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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arnold Salter Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Oregon Food Bank21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Arnold Salter Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Arnold Salter Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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