New York · Private foundation
Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust
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.
- $850k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $850k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $850k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $750k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $750k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $600k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save Our Strays Inc | $900,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc | $500,000 | 6 | 2% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Animal Medical Center | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Juilliard School | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Rights Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Florida Grand Opera Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 22% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save Our Strays Inc | $900,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc | $500,000 | 6 | 2% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Animal Medical Center | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Juilliard School | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Rights Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Florida Grand Opera Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Miami City Ballet Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Save Our Strays Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| School of the Arts Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Palm Beach Cultural Innovation Center | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust
- How much does Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust give?
- Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $850,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (31%), Arts & Culture (28%), Health (22%).
- Who are Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Save Our Strays Inc ($900k), Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc ($500k), Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc ($500k).
- Does Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust 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 Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust based?
- Janet Traeger Salz Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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