Oregon · Public charity
Salem Leadership Foundation
We engage people-of-faith and people-of-goodwill to transform salem-keizer neighborhood by neighborhood. Our partnerships increase the health and well-being of kids, families, schools and neighborhoods, especially those most in need. Our vision is that salem-keizer will become the healthiest community in oregon, truly a city of shalom…
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $46k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,757
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,540
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $407k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Salem Leadership Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 3 | $46k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $54k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $25k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $71k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $361k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $50k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $28k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church at the Park | $439,397 | 5 | 0% |
| Oak Park Church of God | $38,264 | 2 | n/a |
| Salem Evangelical Church | $31,734 | 3 | n/a |
| First Presbyterian Church | $28,471 | 2 | n/a |
| Court Street Christian Church | $26,675 | 2 | n/a |
| Tabernaculo de Salem | $22,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Life Church | $17,375 | 2 | n/a |
| Life Church | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New Harvest Church | $12,918 | 2 | n/a |
| Enlace Cross-Cultural Project | $12,590 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church at the Park | $439,397 | 5 | 0% |
| Oak Park Church of God | $38,264 | 2 | n/a |
| Salem Evangelical Church | $31,734 | 3 | n/a |
| First Presbyterian Church | $28,471 | 2 | n/a |
| Court Street Christian Church | $26,675 | 2 | n/a |
| Tabernaculo de Salem | $22,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Life Church | $17,375 | 2 | n/a |
| Life Church | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New Harvest Church | $12,918 | 2 | n/a |
| Enlace Cross-Cultural Project | $12,590 | 2 | n/a |
| Evergreen Presbyterian Church | $5,240 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($17k), 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.
Open a dossier: Marion-Polk Food Share Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Salem Leadership Foundation
- How much does Salem Leadership Foundation give?
- Salem Leadership Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $46,004, out of $116,034 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Salem Leadership Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (71%), Religion (27%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Salem Leadership Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Church at the Park ($439k), Oak Park Church of God ($38k), Salem Evangelical Church ($32k).
- Does Salem Leadership Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Salem Leadership Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marion-Polk Food Share Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Salem Leadership Foundation based?
- Salem Leadership Foundation is based in OR.
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