North Carolina · Private foundation
Sall Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $36M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $107M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Sall Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 72 | $29M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $27M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $26M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $18M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $16M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $33,780,000 | 5 | 1% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $21,287,244 | 5 | 2% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $11,000,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $8,500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| World Resources Institute | $2,450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bioversity International USA Inc | $2,200,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Resourced Inc | $2,020,394 | 4 | 76% |
| Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc | $2,000,000 | 4 | 17% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $2,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $1,695,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sall Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Skoll Foundation · Mulago Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Skoll Fund · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Child Relief International Foundation
How this is measured
About Sall Family Foundation
- How much does Sall Family Foundation give?
- Sall Family Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $35,771,480 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sall Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (48%), International (34%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Sall Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($34M), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($21M), Rocky Mountain Institute ($11M).
- Does Sall Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sall Family Foundation 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 Sall Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Skoll Foundation, Mulago Foundation, Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation).
- Where is Sall Family Foundation based?
- Sall Family Foundation is based in NC.
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