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Salem Community Foundation Inc
The salem community foundation, a public non-profit charitable trust, has as its mission to improve the quality of life in salem, ohio, and the immediate area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,614,632 |
| SALEM COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION | $725,023 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $128,005 |
| SALEM JUNIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN COLUMBIANA C | $40,000 |
| THE BRIGHTSIDE PROJECT | $28,000 |
| SALEM PARKS & RECREATION - WATERWOR | $25,000 |
| BURCHFIELD HOMESTEAD SOCIETY INC | $23,170 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY- SALEM CORPS | $16,800 |
| CITY OF SALEM- FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| SALEM COMMUNITY PANTRY | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- TSTHE SALEM COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +29% · 40% of their budget
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $913k · revenue +5%
- UWUNITED WAY SERVICES OF NORTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $996k
- SHSalem Historical Societyone grant, 2019 · $65k
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $60k
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.
Community Theatre
Voluntary fire and rescue operation
To conserve, restore and protect the game, fish and other wildlife and their habitats in salem county and the surrounding areas. also to procure better fishing and hunting for sportsmen and to promote and maintain friendly relations…
Promoting good health and active lifestyles through cultural exploration and awareness, travel, exercise and community engagement. we provide a service of community engagement and an outlet for activity, while touching a demographic in need
The society's exempt purpose is to discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary and ecclesiastical history of salem county, nj and perpetuate the historical heritage for present and future generations.
To provide historical education and preservation programs
Nonprofit community arts center
The mission of salem county women's services is to protect, assist and educate our community in regard to the problems caused by domestic violence and sexual abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Historical Society Salem Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 36 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 THE SALEM COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SERVICES OF NORTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SALEM JUNIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM CEMETERY ASSOCIATION GRANDVIEW CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIANA COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SALEM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROC OF SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PIRANHA AQUATICS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Salem Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds SALEM BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Salem Worlds War Memorial Building Association ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
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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 Salem Community Foundation Inc 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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