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Gary Saltz Foundation Inc

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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$4.1MHealth$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.7MCivil Rights$743kCrime & Legal$695kInternational$640kEnvironment$615kArts & Culture$603kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $974k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $750k
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BASSER CENTER FOR BRCA$250,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$250,000
REPLICATIONS INC$250,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$170,000
EDUCARE$130,000
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION$100,000
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$100,000
VOTERIDERS$100,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO (LAISTKPCC)$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA (NATIONAL OFFICE)$85,000
MOTHER JONES FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS$85,000
PINE RIDGE GIRLS' SCHOOL$75,000
ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS IN ISRAEL (US)$70,000
GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE$55,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $15k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $15k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $15k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
SD
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 69 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

69 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
17

Total granted

$11M
$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+29%

Still filing today

87%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RI
    Replications Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +209%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $750k · revenue +9%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $695k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
9
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; the most unlike its peers is The Dillon Henry Foundation. 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

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
53/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $695,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSBASSER CENTER FOR BRCA: $450,000 · OtherBASSER CENTER FOR BRCA92ND ST Y: $290,800 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR JUNTOS: $261,250 · OtherFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $230,000 · OtherEDUCARE FOUNDATION: $206,500 · OtherNAOMI BERRIE DIABETES CENTER COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $315,000 · OtherThe Center for Investigative Reporting form…+59 more: $2,636,188 · Other+59 moreReplications Inc: $2,655,000 · EducationReplications IncTeachers College Columbia University: $325,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia Uni…PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC: $225,000 · EducationPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC+9 more: $486,500 · Education+9 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,468,900 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNA…GIVING TUESDAY INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DILLON HENRY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $68,000 · PhilanthropyCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · HealthCROHN'S & C…CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $180,000 · HealthCHILD MIND …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $115,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…VENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $115,000 · HealthVENICE FAMI…FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $100,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $65,000 · Health+2 more: $75,000 · Health+2 morePHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $250,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $175,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $160,000 · InternationalELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $78,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $45,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $42,000 · InternationalAfrica New Day Inc: $30,000 · International+5 more: $95,000 · InternationalHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $155,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $122,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $80,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $72,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentKENT LAND TRUST INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $40,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $262,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $85,000 · Arts & CultureA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $72,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $57,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,484,738Education$3,691,500Philanthropy$1,781,900Health$1,400,000International$875,000Environment$659,000Arts & Culture$476,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetReplications Inc: $2,655,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,468,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $695,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $325,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $315,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $262,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $250,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC: $225,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetEDUCARE FOUNDATION: $206,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $180,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $155,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $151,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $122,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $122,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $105,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING TUESDAY INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DILLON HENRY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $78,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $72,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKENT LAND TRUST INC: $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition to Stop Gun Violence: $50,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

California Community …Jewish Communal FundCharles & Jane Klein …The Kestrel FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationFjcPledgeling FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…
California Community FoundationCA17.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charles & Jane Klein Family Fund · The Kestrel Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Fjc · Pledgeling Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gary Saltz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary Saltz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Gary Saltz Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 120 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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