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Salem Health

To improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

$378k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MHuman Services$223kYouth Development$160kInternational$106kCommunity Improvement$79kFood & Nutrition$67kHousing & Shelter$42kCrime & Legal$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $277,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $378,171 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,571 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
$11,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALEM FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$100,000
SALEM FOR REFUGEES$70,000
TRANSFORMATIONS BY SALEM ANGELS$70,000
THE POLK COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$11,100
UNITED WAY$10,000
MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY$6,500
SALEM KEIZER SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
SALEM HARVEST$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THE GATE: $30k → 13%CASA OF POLK COUNTY INC: $26k → 13%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $46k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $43k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $23k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $8k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $6k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $5k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $31k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $30k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SALEM PASTORAL COUNSELING CTR: $15k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 24 repeat orgs$616k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
27

Total granted

$2.2M
$471k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • SALEM FREE CLINICS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $777k · revenue +113%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES
    4× · 2017–2023 · $154k · revenue +111%
  • FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue 0%
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF SALEM
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SC
    SALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Salem Health and Wellness Foundation Inc
Health
2
Salem Health

To improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
3
Willamette Family Medical Center Inc

Providing health care services

Health
4
The Salem Foundation

The salem foundation exists for the purpose of receiving, safeguarding, and disbursing funds for charitable purposes in the vicinity of salem, oregon.

Philanthropy
5
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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6
Salem Saturday Market

We are a non-profit member organization dedicated to bringing the best fresh local produce, flowers, meat/dairy, nursery products, authentic artisan food and artisan crafts to the Salem and surrounding communities.

Community Improvement
7
Arc of Salem County

The arc of salem county is committed to helping people with disabilities realize their educational, personal, social and vocational goals through advocacy, education leadership and services for individuals and families.

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8
Salem Historical Society
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9
Salem Alliance for the Environment Inc

Safe is a group dedicated to assuring that salem, a historical maritime community located on massachusetts' north shore, is a healthy and prosperous place in which to live. like many older industrial cities, salem faces environmental…

Environment
10
The Salem Rotary Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Salem Villages Incorporated (Central Org
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12
Salem Hospital Inc

Salem home will master person-centered care to benefit residents, families, staff, and the community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health AccessYouth Development ProgramsYouth Soccer ProgramsBusiness & Industry Associa…Classical & Ensemble Music …Community Social ServicesHospital Health SystemsIndependent Schools and Ear…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%41%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
12%
835/6,781

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.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALEM FREE CLINICS — $777,000 · OtherSALEM FREE CLINICSPOLK COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS & EVENTS — $160,900 · OtherPOLK COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS & EVENTSMID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $121,400 · OtherMID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES — $107,961 · OtherNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICESUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY — $84,000 · OtherSALEM-KEIZER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $81,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $75,000 · OtherTRANSFORMATIONS BY SALEM ANGELS — $70,000 · Other+26 more — $542,163 · Other+26 moreFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $130,370 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUIL…LIBERTY HOUSE — $65,750 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOU…SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $36,000 · Human ServicesSALEM LEADE…GATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesGATE YOUTH …CASA OF POLK COUNTY INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF POL…SALEM PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $153,500 · Youth DevelopmentISAAC'S ROOM — $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE INSPIRE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentSALEM FOR REFUGEES — $70,000 · InternationalMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $35,500 · InternationalWILLAMETTE HEALTH COUNCIL — $25,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $24,796 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $17,500 · HealthSALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $17,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $5,000 · HealthCHURCH AT THE PARK — $60,000 · ReligionLOVE INC OF NORTH MARION COUNTY — $38,900 · ReligionMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $62,442 · Food & NutritionSALEM HARVEST — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,019,424Human Services$303,120Youth Development$180,500International$105,500Health$99,296Religion$98,900Food & Nutrition$67,442

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSALEM FREE CLINICS — $777,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $153,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $130,370 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $121,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES — $107,961 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY — $84,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSALEM-KEIZER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $81,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY SALEM ANGELS — $70,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE — $65,750 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $62,442 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHURCH AT THE PARK — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMano A Mano — $55,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $51,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSALEM POLICE FOUNDATION — $42,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetLOVE INC OF NORTH MARION COUNTY — $38,900 over 2y, 17% of budgetSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $35,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY — $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMarion County Sheriff's Office Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetGATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCASA OF POLK COUNTY INC — $26,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetWILLAMETTE HEALTH COUNCIL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM — $20,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSALEM ART ASSOCIATION — $18,750 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSALEM INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK — $18,250 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL FOUNDATION OF MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $17,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST FRANCIS SHELTER — $16,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSALEM PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSPIRE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSALEM HARVEST — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Maps Community Founda…The Salem FoundationThe Oregon Community …Willamette Health Cou…United Way of the Mid…Marie Lamfrom Charita…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Pioneer Trust Bank Na…The Autzen FoundationThe Ford Family Found…W Walton Decd Charita…Juan Young Trust
Maps Community FoundationOR61.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maps Community Foundation · The Salem Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Willamette Health Council · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Pioneer Trust Bank Na Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · W Walton Decd Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust

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 Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — 81% of income from government
  • Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality — 77% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Salem for Refugees — 35% of income from government
  • Northwest Family Services — 35% of income from government
  • Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network — 25% of income from government
  • Liberty House — 23% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
  • Church at the Park — 12% of income from government
  • Gate Youth Association — 6% of income from government
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
  • Isaac's Room — 5% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Willamette Health Council — 3% of income from government
  • Salem Leadership Foundation — 3% of income from government
  • Capital Futbol Club — 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association in Salem — 1% of income from government
  • Salem Art Association — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Salem Health Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Catholic Community Services Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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