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Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation at a glance

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Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$622kInternational$262kReligion$236kHealth$126kPhilanthropy$112kRecreation & Sports$41kHuman Services$28kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
$5,225
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$31,138
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$19,910
OHR KODESH CONGREGATION$18,000
THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CHABAD OF POTOMAC$5,225
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$5,209
YESHIVA OF GREATER DC$5,000
AMERICA GIVES$3,350
THE TIKVAH FUND$2,000
CAMP AVODA$500
JEWISH GENEALOGY AND ARCHIVAL SOCIETY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$180
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%US Holocaust Museum: $10k → 14%The Jewish Day School: $62k → 8%University of Maryland: $25k → 11%The Jewish Day School: $58k → 8%UMD COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%The Jewish Day School: $57k → 8%University of Maryland: $25k → 11%The Jewish Day School: $52k → 8%UMD COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $246k → 17%The Jewish Day School: $42k → 8%University of Maryland: $10k → 11%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $36k → 8%University of Maryland: $10k → 11%DC JCC: $10k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $31k → 8%University of Maryland: $10k → 11%EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC: $10k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $30k → 8%Jewish Federation of Greater Washin: $20k → 8%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $20k → 8%Jewish Federation of Greater Washin: $15k → 8%Jewish Federation of Greater Washin: $15k → 8%Jewish Federation of Greater Washin: $15k → 8%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $12k → 8%OHEV SHALOM CONGREGATION DC: $23k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $12k → 8%Jewish Federation of Greater Washin: $10k → 8%SELA PCS: $10k → 14%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $12k → 8%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $11k → 8%Suburban Hospital Foundation: $20k → 8%SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%Suburban Hospital Foundation: $20k → 8%SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $40k → 8%Torah School of Greater Washington: $30k → 8%THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $30k → 8%THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $13k → 8%Ohr Kodesh Congregation: $25k → 8%Ohr Kodesh Congregation: $18k → 8%OHR KODESH CONGREGATION: $18k → 8%Ohr Kodesh Congregation: $14k → 8%Ohr Kodesh Congregation: $14k → 8%OHR KODESH CONGREGATION: $14k → 8%Ohr Kodesh Congregation: $13k → 8%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 69%.

Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
10

Total granted

$1.2M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+34%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +44%
  • CE
    CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $109k · revenue +9%
  • EJ
    EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • KI
    Kesher Israel
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +20%
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
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
Sherit Isroel
—
7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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9
The Jerusalem Connection
—
10
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
11
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
12
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Jewish Day School: $271,000 · OtherThe Jewish Day SchoolOHR KODESH CONGREGATION: $114,836 · OtherOHR KODESH CONGREGATIONUniversity of Maryland: $80,000 · OtherUniversity of MarylandJewish Federation of Greater Washin: $75,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater WashinCHABAD OF POTOMAC: $50,264 · OtherCHABAD OF POTOMACUMD COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Other+18 more: $152,610 · Other+18 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $259,736 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUN…+1 more: $2,160 · InternationalTHE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $127,500 · EducationTHE TORAH SCHOOL OF…CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $109,138 · EducationCHARLES E SMITH JEW…YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 · EducationYESHIVA OF GREATER …+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $119,910 · HealthSUBURBAN …WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $750 · HealthTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $32,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $5,150 · PhilanthropyThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $180 · Arts & CultureHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $6,000 · Religion
Other$783,710International$261,896Education$261,638Health$125,660Philanthropy$37,150Arts & Culture$10,680Religion$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $259,736 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $127,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $119,910 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $109,138 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $5,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP AVODA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $500 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds CAMP AVODA INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center ↗
  • Who funds ROCKVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗

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 Jewish Federation…T Rowe Price Program …Leslie & Samuel Kapla…The Annette M Lerner …Alan and Amy Meltzer …The Gary and Pennie A…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington IncMD17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family 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 39 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home