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Salmen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NEW ORLEANS | $30,000 |
| CLEAR ANSWERS TO LA MENTAL HEALTH CALM | $15,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| STARC | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SISTERS SERVANTS OF MARY | $10,000 |
| ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CONCERN | $10,000 |
| GULF COAST CANCER RELIEF PORKCHOPITOULAS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP SALMEN NATURE PARK | $5,000 |
| PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF SLIDELL | $5,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE GRACE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HARRY TOMPSON CENTER | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SOSTARC OF LOUISIANA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +26%
- HIHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS6× · 2018–2023 · $180k · revenue +27%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- OWOne Way Love Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -28%
- OWONE WAY LOVE OF ST TAMMANYone grant, 2024 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide for the material and spiritual needs of the homeless, hungry, and displaced of Northeast Louisiana, and to facilitate and assist them in getting out of the cycle of poverty.
Supportive housing and substance use disorder treatment prorgrams serve the community by providing support and counseling to families and individuals who struggle with substance use disorders, homelessness, mental illness and/or hiv/aids.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
Homeless shelter for women and children and families transitioning through training from homelessness and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency.
The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…
The mission of the Bridge Center is to provide pathways to treatment for people experiencing behavioral health issues and to link providers to create an integrated continuum of care from prevention to rehabilitation.
Neighborhood housing services of new orleans, inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. we improve quality of life through informed…
Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge House Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Crisis Pregnancy Help Center of Sli. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 STARC OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CONCERN INC ↗
- Who funds RAINTREE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OZANAM INN ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF SLI ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLE VILLAGE ART THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Reach Alliance ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One Way Love Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL 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.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · The Vincent Saia Foundation · Lauricella Land Company Foundation · Angel Wings Foundation · Ronnie & Gwen Briggs Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation
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 Salmen Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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