Indiana · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $540
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $928k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Salin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 14 | $28k | 79% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $74k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $10k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $702k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $258k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $121k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $219k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $218k | 56% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana University Foundation | $217,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Anderson University Inc | $121,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Indiana Historical Society | $107,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $8,500 | 3 | n/a |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Theological Seminary | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Matthew Zonghetti Scholarship Fund Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Salin 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: 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
How this is measured
About Salin Foundation Inc
- How much does Salin Foundation Inc give?
- Salin Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $28,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Salin Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Salin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indiana University Foundation ($217k), Anderson University Inc ($121k), Indiana Historical Society ($107k).
- Does Salin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Salin Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Salin Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Maurer Family Foundation Inc, Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Salin Foundation Inc based?
- Salin Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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