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Mike and Jan Salta Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$462kReligion$41kHuman Services$23kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$19kEnvironment$16kEducation$11kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$500
JOSLYN CENTER$500
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 (FY22–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOSLYN CENTER: $500 → 11%JOSLYN CENTER: $500 → 11%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$562k · 11 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$562k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+43%

Still filing today

55%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • PS
    PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2017–2019 · $213k · revenue +14%
  • RM
    RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $47k · revenue +125%
  • LD
    LIVING DESERT THE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • EM
    EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • EH
    EAST HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -38%
  • WL
    Women Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valleygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +30%
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
Literary Society of the Desert

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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3
Jewish Family Service of the Desert

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.

Human Services
4
Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation

The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.

Arts & Culture
5
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
6
Cal Bears in the Desert

Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.

Education
7
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
8
Desert Recreation Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
9
Sun Health Services

Sun health champions superior health and wellbeing through philanthropy, inspired living and wellness programs.

Health
10
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

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…

Community Improvement
11
Central Valley Salinity Coalition Inc

Association of entities for the advancement of research, education, planning and management of salinity in the central valley.

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12
Desert Spring Community Resource Center
Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rancho Mirage Writers Festival; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 22 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCCALLUM THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $159,194 · OtherMCCALLUM THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS CENTERPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $42,100 · OtherPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALSACRED HEART CHURCH: $40,964 · OtherSACRED HEART CHURCHBARBARA SINATRA CHILDRENS CENTER: $15,800 · OtherBARBARA SINATRA CHILDRENS CENTEREISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherEAST HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $12,920 · OtherPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $213,066 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUMRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $47,000 · EducationRANCHO MI…+1 more: $820 · EducationHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $13,800 · Recreation & SportsWomen Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valley: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLIVING DESERT THE: $16,400 · EnvironmentACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $8,550 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$290,978Arts & Culture$213,066Education$47,820Recreation & Sports$18,800Environment$16,400Health$8,750Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $213,066 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $47,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $16,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $13,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $8,550 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAnimal Samaritans: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIZELL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC: $820 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 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.

The Galen Family Foun…The Auen FoundationThe Coeta and Donald …Inland Empire Communi…Coachella Valley Well…Houston Family Founda…Bighorn Golf Club Cha…The Grace Helen Spear…John F Grundhofer Cha…HN and Frances C Berg…Newman's Own Foundati…Fidelity Investments …
The Galen Family FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mike and Jan Salta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike and Jan Salta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Mike and Jan Salta Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mike and Jan Salta 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 22 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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