Minnesota · Private foundation
Salem Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $769k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Salem Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $26k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $18k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $39k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $74k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $49k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $43k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $45k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $31k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayzata Community Church Foundation | $19,240 | 6 | n/a |
| Wayzata Symphony Orchestra | $18,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Bay School | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Castine Community Partners Inc | $15,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $14,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wayzata Community Church | $11,240 | 3 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $10,750 | 7 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mounds Park Academy | $10,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Minnesota Zoo Foundation | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Salem Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · American Gift Fund · Otto Bremer Trust · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Dellwood Foundation Inc · Mithun Family Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · The Nash Foundation
How this is measured
About Salem Foundation Inc
- How much does Salem Foundation Inc give?
- Salem Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $26,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Salem Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Religion (11%), Health (11%).
- Who are Salem Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wayzata Community Church Foundation ($19k), Wayzata Symphony Orchestra ($18k), The Bay School ($17k).
- Does Salem Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Salem Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Salem Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Salem Foundation Inc based?
- Salem Foundation Inc is based in MN.
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