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Sahlin Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$809k
Granted FY2018
23
Grants FY2018
22
Organizations funded FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$502,013
States reached, FY2018
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Spokane Public Radio$43,69412%
Connoisseur Concerts Association$7,00012%
Providence Health Care Foundation$3,50011%
Friends of the Bing$2,50011%
Friends of the Guitar Hour$2,0001n/a
Holy Names Music Center$2,0001n/a
Spokane Symphony Society$1,00010%
Idaho Mythweaver Inc$1,00013%
Music Conservatory of Sandpoint$1,00010%
Spokane Chamber Music Association$1,0001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($744k), not named here.

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 Avista FoundationWA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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How do I get to Sahlin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sahlin 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.

About Sahlin Foundation

How much does Sahlin Foundation give?
Sahlin Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $808,951 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Sahlin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (62%), Arts & Culture (37%), Health (0%).
Who are Sahlin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Spokane Public Radio ($44k), Connoisseur Concerts Association ($7k), Providence Health Care Foundation ($4k).
Does Sahlin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sahlin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Avista Foundation, Innovia Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Sahlin Foundation based?
Sahlin Foundation is based in ID.

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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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