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Mike and Jan Salta 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JOSLYN CENTER | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM3× · 2017–2019 · $213k · revenue +14%
- RMRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL2× · 2018–2019 · $47k · revenue +125%
- LDLIVING DESERT THE2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- EMEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- EHEAST HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -38%
- WLWomen Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valleygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The literary society of the desert is a non-profit organization promoting literacy and the love of reading through presentations by (and discussions with) leading authors, as well as promoting literacy, writing skills, and the love of…
To provide for the social service needs of the jewish and general community throughout the greater coachella valley with a commitment to promote the well being of persons of all ages, income and lifesytles.
The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.
Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
To enrich and preserve the quality of life for residents by raising funds and garnering support to purchase, develop, enhance, preserve, promote, and expand the coachella valley's recreational activities, programs, parks, properties, and…
Sun health champions superior health and wellbeing through philanthropy, inspired living and wellness programs.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
Association of entities for the advancement of research, education, planning and management of salinity in the central valley.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rancho Mirage Writers Festival and the most unlike its peers is Animal Samaritans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valley ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds MIZELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
- Who funds TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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.
Open a dossier: The Galen Family Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Coachella Valley Wellness Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · John F Grundhofer Charitable Fdn Tr · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Mike and Jan Salta 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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