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Salin Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$1.7MEducation$555kArts & Culture$182kReligion$133kHealth$116kEnvironment$60kHuman Services$48kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$540
Median grant
6
States reached
$928k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST BY THE SEA CHURCH$12,000
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY$7,500
MATTHEW ZONGHETTI SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,500
IU FOUNDATION LUNG CANCER$1,000
INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL$1,000
WPOA FIREWORKS BARGE$1,000
ALL ROADS - BOULDER SHELTER FOR STACEY ROONEY$540
Individual grant recipient$500
WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION$500
CARMELITE MONASTERY$500
ERIKA'S LIGHTHOUSE$250
HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE$250
GLIOBLASTOMA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION$250
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$250
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA OF GREATER FT WAYNE: $25k → 12%METROPOLITAN YMCA: $3k → 12%SERVANTS AT WORK: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $400 → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$814k · 32 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
52

Total granted

$814k
$993k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+26%

Still filing today

34%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    3× · 2017–2021 · $217k · revenue +97%
  • IH
    INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $107k · revenue +20%
  • MY
    METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • MF
    McCLAIN-SALIN FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $689k
  • SC
    SOPHIA C SALIN SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $78k

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
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
2
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
3
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

6
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

9
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…

11
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana State Medical Association

The indiana state medical association exists to maximize the leadership and impact of physicians.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridge to Europe. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Ymca Community CentersPregnancy Support ServicesHomeless Services & ShelterLand Conservation Organizat…Substance Abuse TreatmentCommunity Health CentersCommunity FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Cancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%76%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr13%2%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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,526

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

34 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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
17/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

McCLAIN-SALIN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $689,218 · OtherMcCLAIN-SALIN FAMILY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $100,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOPHIA C SALIN SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT — $100,000 · OtherSOPHIA C SALIN SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENTIndividual grant recipient — $77,508 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $61,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA — $56,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $45,000 · Other+66 more — $193,011 · Other+66 moreBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,030,231 · PhilanthropyBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+3 more — $3,250 · PhilanthropyIndiana University Foundation — $217,000 · EducationIndiana Unive…ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $121,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIV…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $107,000 · Arts & CultureEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC — $5,250 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE — $27,500 · Human ServicesServants at Work Inc — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $400 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,750 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,250 · HealthEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $1,000 · Health+5 more — $900 · HealthIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC — $6,000 · Religion
Other$1,322,337Philanthropy$1,033,481Education$343,000Arts & Culture$118,250Human Services$28,900Health$10,900Religion$6,000

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 budgetBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,030,231 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $217,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $121,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $107,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW ZONGHETTI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe League Club Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNewfields Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWABASH RIVER ENHANCEMENT CORPORATIO ATTN STANTON LAMBERT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetServants at Work Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIGHT TO LIFE OF INDIANAPOLIS — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLIOBLASTOMA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE
  • Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC
  • Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC
  • Who funds MATTHEW ZONGHETTI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC

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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN27.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Ackerman Foundation · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Lacy Foundation · Ayres Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

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 Salin 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 97 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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