· Private foundation
Salem Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAYZATA COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,000 |
| VETERTAINMENT | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| MOUNDS PARK ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST | $1,500 |
| THE RETREAT | $1,250 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCEITY | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL ACADEMY & SUMMIT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICARES | $1,000 |
| ANGEL FOUNDATION | $750 |
| MINNEAPOLIS SAILING CENTER | $750 |
| CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL OWL CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 7 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WSWAYZATA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +38%
- TBTHE BAY SCHOOL5× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue +83%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- BSBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +229%
- LOLifeFlight of Maine LLCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +45%
- CACASTINE AREA RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Global Expeditions Group Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 105 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 Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYZATA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MOUNDS PARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RESURRECTION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds WITHALL ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SAILING CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CONFERENCE ↗
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.
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
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.