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Michal and Ken Salkin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Michal and Ken Salkin Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$884k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$1.5MEducation$236kScience & Tech$18kReligion$14kArts & Culture$10kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $752k
  • $250k+1 grant · $884k
$161,618
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C$884,474
Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C$189,372
Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C$171,400
Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C$161,618
Marlborough School$130,000
Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C$100,000
Campbell Hall$5,000
Kollel Bais Yosef$1,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NPH USA: $1k → 11%Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C: $884k → 16%Campbell Hall: $74k → 14%Duke University: $10k → 11%Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C: $189k → 16%Campbell Hall: $5k → 14%Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C: $171k → 16%Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies: $2k → 14%Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C: $162k → 16%Kollel Bais Yosef: $1k → 14%Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C: $100k → 16%Kollel Bais Yosef: $1k → 14%Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund: $15k → 16%Windward School: $4k → 14%Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund: $180 → 16%Marlborough School: $130k → 14%Project ECHO: $250 → 14%American Technion Society: $18k → 14%Camp Ramah: $5k → 14%Wallis Annenberg Center: $10k → 14%Beverly Hills Education Foundation: $5k → 14%Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills: $5k → 14%Jewish Federation: $15k → 14%Park Century School: $5k → 14%Jewish Big Brothers: $5k → 14%Park Century School: $3k → 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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 4 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$104k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+41%

Still filing today

25%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20
EducationInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • CH
    CAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-
    2× · 2018–2020 · $79k
  • VC
    Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
  • PC
    PARK CENTURY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • JF
    Jewish Federation
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +41%
  • WA
    WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +47%
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
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
6
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
7
Shalom School

Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.

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8
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

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9
The Pardes Jewish Day School Inc

The pardes jewish day school prepares students to become outstanding members of society through a rigorous secular and judaic education, a nurturing community, and a foundation in reform judaism that welcomes all jewish traditions.

Education
10
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
11
The Hotchkiss School

The hotchkiss school seeks to inspire a diverse range of students who are committed to the betterment of self and society, and to cultivate in them at the highest standards of excellence (imagination and intellect, openness and personal…

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Windward School; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Michal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard C: $1,506,864 · OtherMichal Ken Salkin Fund - Vanguard CCAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-: $79,000 · Other+8 more: $53,980 · OtherMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL: $130,000 · EducationMARLBOROU…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationDUKE UNIV…PARK CENTURY SCHOOL: $8,000 · Education+2 more: $3,950 · EducationAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $18,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,000 · InternationalWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,639,844Education$151,950International$24,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL: $130,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CENTURY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL: $3,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ECHO: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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 …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Michal and Ken Salkin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michal and Ken Salkin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, 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.

    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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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