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Marian Renee and Edward Saltzberg Foundation at a glance

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Marian Renee and Edward Saltzberg 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.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$797kArts & Culture$24kEducation$18kPhilanthropy$15kInternational$14kYouth Development$500Human Services$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$723k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$30,000
LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$10,000
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER$5,000
LACEY HORWITCH SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
KESHET$2,500
JEWISH UNITED FUND$2,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INVEST FOR KIDS: $500 → 14%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$784k · 15 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$784k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

53%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • K
    KESHET
    7× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +105%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $51k · revenue +44%
  • CW
    CANCER WELLNESS CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +60%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • University of Illinois Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +127%
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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
4
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
8
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
12
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Speaks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fighting for Families. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $210,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITALJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONKESHET: $87,500 · OtherKESHETLURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $80,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITALCHICAGO DIABETES PROJECT: $35,000 · OtherCHICAGO DIABETES PROJECT+10 more: $40,000 · Other+10 moreCHAI LIFELINE INC: $50,680 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INCCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $46,500 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CEN…LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATIO…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $20,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Luri…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D+4 more: $4,295 · HealthFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $9,000 · Arts & CultureUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 · EducationMATANYA'S HOPE: $7,200 · EducationJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPINK AID INC: $500 · PhilanthropyLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,500 · International
Other$652,500Health$151,475Arts & Culture$24,000Education$17,200Philanthropy$10,500Housing & Shelter$10,000International$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKESHET: $87,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $50,680 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $46,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSAN F LASKY CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMATANYA'S HOPE: $7,200 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHTING FOR FAMILIES: $1,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINK AID INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Marian Renee and Edward Saltzberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marian Renee and Edward Saltzberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Marian Renee and Edward Saltzberg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marian Renee and Edward Saltzberg 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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