· Private foundation
Salmon Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Judes Children Hospital | $2,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club | $2,000 |
| Ronald MCDonald House | $2,000 |
| Make a Wish | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| San Diego Zoo | $2,000 |
| Generate Hope | $2,000 |
| Covenent House | $1,000 |
| Toys for Tots | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Earth | $500 |
| Feeding San Diego | $500 |
| Mayo Clinic | $500 |
| San Diego Coast Keepers | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +78%- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +56%
- SDSAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SCSands Care Inspireone grant, 2019 · $1k
- SGSt Gregory's Foundationone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Curebound's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives. we raise and invest strategic funding for innovative adult and pediatric cancer research with one vision: cures in our lifetime.
The primary mission of the uso san diego is to strengthen america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
We proudly supports Americas finest police department by cultivating positive community engagement and helping fund vital equipment and specialize training that ensures peace and safety for all.
Our mission is to strengthen disaster response in america by rescuing and recuiting dogs and partnering them with firefighters and other first responders to find people buried alive in the wreckage of disasters.
Our mission is to disseminate actionable, evidence-based practices, advance their integration by healthcare organizations, and cultivate data transparency by 2030.
The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…
The organizations mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs.the organization provides professionally trained, expertly matched service dogs and personalized instruction in their care and use to people who are…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds GENERATEHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF SHARING ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Salmon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Salmon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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