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.

Sall Family Foundation

Sall Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$6.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$65MInternational$45MPhilanthropy$5.8MEducation$4.3MHealth$4.0MFood & Nutrition$3.9MCivil Rights$1.1MCrime & Legal$700kOther$0

02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k8 grants · $233k
$50k–250k46 grants · $4.9M
$250k+25 grants · $31M

$125,000

Median grant

States reached

$107M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CARE	$6,000,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC	$4,824,380
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$4,230,100
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE	$2,900,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$2,500,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC	$1,849,500
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL	$1,000,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC	$716,500
BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL USA INC	$700,000
CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC (C2ES)	$500,000
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE	$500,000
READDI INC	$500,000
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY	$500,000
Individual grant recipient	$450,000
THE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION	$350,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Sall Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sall Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.2% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$112M · 64 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$112M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+22%

Still filing today

78%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalEnvironmentHealthEducationPhilanthropyScience & TechOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $34M · revenue +37%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $21M · revenue +28%
Rocky Mountain Institute
5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +183%

Funded once

N
NEST360
one grant, 2022 · $500k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $250k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $150k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment

Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thousand Currents; the most unlike its peers is The Roddenberry Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

83/83

Grantees still filing

50/83

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$45,155,000Environment$37,264,744Other$38,509,600Philanthropy$6,072,000Health$3,320,000Education$2,536,000Food & Nutrition$2,020,394

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Skoll FoundationCA41.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sall Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sall Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home