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Rae Saltzman Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$26k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
U OF ARIZONA$500
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND$500
BOSTON U$500
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$500
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%U OF ARIZONA: $500 → 15%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%MUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $500 → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - IRVINE: $500 → 10%NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500 → 6%SUNY STONY BROOK: $500 → 7%QUEENS COLLEGE: $1k → 13%SUNY BUFFALO: $500 → 13%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $500 → 14%SUNY ALBANY: $500 → 14%MOUNT SAINT MARY COLLEGE: $500 → 14%SUNY CORTLAND: $500 → 15%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $500 → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%SUNY BINGHAMTON: $500 → 20%MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $500 → 28%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $500 → 13%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $500 → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $500 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $500 → 7%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $500 → 27%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 24%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $500 → 10%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 23%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND: $500 → 19%U OF ARIZONA: $500 → 15%BOSTON U: $500 → 16%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 6%SUNY STONY BROOK: $500 → 7%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $500 → 13%SUNY BUFFALO: $500 → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%SOPHIE DAVIS SCHOOL OF BIOMED EDUCA: $500 → 17%SUNY BINGHAMTON: $500 → 20%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $500 → 13%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 18%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND: $500 → 19%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $1k → 6%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12k · 11 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
23

Total granted

$12k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +24%
  • Cornell University
    3× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +59%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2023 · $1k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • QC
    QUEENS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • MS
    MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • SD
    SOPHIE DAVIS SCHOOL OF BIOMED EDUCA
    one grant, 2018 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
12
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manhattan University and the most unlike its peers is The Research Foundation for the State University of New York. 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

18 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. 18 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYU OF ARIZONA — $1,000 · OtherU OF ARIZONAQUEENS COLLEGE — $1,000 · OtherQUEENS COLLEGESUNY BINGHAMTON — $1,000 · OtherSUNY BINGHAMTONLoyola University Maryland Inc — $1,000 · OtherLoyola University Maryland IncIndiana University School of Medicine — $1,000 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineSUNY BUFFALO — $1,000 · OtherSUNY BUFFALOMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY — $500 · OtherSOPHIE DAVIS SCHOOL OF BIOMED EDUCA — $500 · OtherBOSTON U — $500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - IRVINE — $500 · OtherNASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT — $500 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS U — $500 · OtherCITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK — $500 · OtherSUNY CORTLAND — $500 · OtherSUNY NEW PALTZ — $500 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY — $500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND — $500 · OtherSUNY ALBANY — $500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA — $500 · OtherHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYCornell University — $1,500 · EducationCornell UniversityThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $1,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University…The George Washington University — $1,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $1,000 · EducationThe University of Tampa IncorporatedUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $500 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 · EducationMount Saint Mary College — $500 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $500 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $500 · EducationManhattan University — $500 · EducationRochester Institute of Technology — $500 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY — $500 · Community Improvement
Other$14,000Education$11,000Community Improvement$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Mary College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan University — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Rae Saltzman Scholarship 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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