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Salvaggio 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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2024
37
Organizations funded FY2023
51%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 40
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$35M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 51% of the organizations Salvaggio Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving36$4.3M25%
FY202337$3.0M51%
FY202240$3.1M38%
FY202137$1.7M30%
FY202031$691k32%
FY201930$1.0M43%
FY201826$1.3M42%
FY201729$424kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$6.0MEducation$5.7MScience & Tech$1.2MReligion$827kYouth Development$378kHuman Services$375kFood & Nutrition$201kHealth$123kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley$6,000,00039%
Salvaggio Academy$1,660,46031%
The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc$1,210,00035%
Desales University$1,000,00040%
CAI Education Advancement Trust$210,000348%
Diocese of Allentown$207,0002n/a
Feeding America$200,00020%
Artsquest$102,50020%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$100,1001n/a
Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia$100,00012%
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All grantees of Salvaggio Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley$6,000,00039%
Salvaggio Academy$1,660,46031%
The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc$1,210,00035%
Desales University$1,000,00040%
CAI Education Advancement Trust$210,000348%
Diocese of Allentown$207,0002n/a
Feeding America$200,00020%
Artsquest$102,50020%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$100,1001n/a
Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia$100,00012%
Easter Seals Eastern Pennsylvania$90,00021%
Allentown Rescue Mission Inc$80,25051%
Push the Rock$80,00041%
Mercy Special Learning Center Inc$73,2896n/a
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$53,12520%
Central Catholic High School Inc$39,3054n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc$30,05331%
Cay Galgon Life House$30,00045%
Covenant House Inc$27,70060%
CS Lewis Institute$25,00012%
Boys and Girls Club of Easton Inc$20,83530%
Lehigh Valley Health Network$20,00030%
Del-Mar-Va Council Inc - Boy Scouts of America$14,00810%
The Miracle League of the Lehigh Valley$10,45022%
Hazleton Cemetery Association$10,000211%
Hazleton Integration Project Inc$10,00031%
St John the Evangelist Parish in Naples Inc$9,0002n/a
Allentown Central Catholic High School$8,6252n/a
Judicial Watch Inc$8,10060%
American Heart Association Inc$7,50010%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$6,65080%
The Kindness Project$6,00021%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$5,50040%
St Anthony's Youth Center of Easton Pa Inc$5,00011%
The Andre Reed Foundation$5,0001n/a
The Franklin Institute$4,50010%
Equi-Librium Inc$4,00030%
Dannys Ride$3,50021%
St Josephs Indian School$3,4858n/a
EdChoice Inc$3,00010%
Haverford School$2,01910%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$2,00010%
State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc$2,00020%
Turning Point USA Inc$1,90020%
The Hillside School$1,50010%
Project Veritas$1,10020%
Cetronia Ambulance Corps Inc$1,08520%
Northampton County Area Community College Foundation$1,00010%
Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing$1,00011%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$1,0001n/a
Czech and Slovak School of Atlanta Inc$1,0001n/a
Friedens Fire Company$1,00011%
Meals on Wheels Inc$1,00010%
St Marys Catholic Church$1,0001n/a
Pink Fund Inc$50010%
Prager University Foundation$50010%
Victory House of Lehigh Valley$50010%
J Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust$45010%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$30010%
Woodlawn Fire Department$21530%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$20010%
The Grace Place Inc$1001n/a
The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy$10010%
Capital Research Center$10010%
Casa Jacinta y Francisco$10010%
Family Promise Lehigh Valley$10010%
Lv Public Telecommunications Corp Wlvt-Tv Channel 39$5010%
St Labre Indian School$501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Salvaggio Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley: $6,000,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetSalvaggio Academy: $1,660,460 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc: $1,210,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetDesales University: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAI Education Advancement Trust: $210,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetFeeding America: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtsquest: $102,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEaster Seals Eastern Pennsylvania: $90,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAllentown Rescue Mission Inc: $80,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPush the Rock: $80,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc: $53,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc: $30,053 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCay Galgon Life House: $30,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCovenant House Inc: $27,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCS Lewis Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Easton Inc: $20,835 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLehigh Valley Health Network: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDel-Mar-Va Council Inc - Boy Scouts of America: $14,008 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Miracle League of the Lehigh Valley: $10,450 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHazleton Cemetery Association: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHazleton Integration Project Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $8,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $6,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kindness Project: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anthony's Youth Center of Easton Pa Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Franklin Institute: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqui-Librium Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDannys Ride: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaverford School: $2,019 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetState Theatre Center for the Arts Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hillside School: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Veritas: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCetronia Ambulance Corps Inc: $1,085 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthampton County Area Community College Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Theatre of Performing: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriedens Fire Company: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPink Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictory House of Lehigh Valley: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 55.

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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.

United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA55.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Butz Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Martin Guitar Charitable 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.

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About Salvaggio Family Foundation

How much does Salvaggio Family Foundation give?
Salvaggio Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $4,278,824 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Salvaggio Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (37%), Science & Tech (8%).
Who are Salvaggio Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley ($6.0M), Salvaggio Academy ($1.7M), The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc ($1.2M).
Does Salvaggio Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Salvaggio 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 Salvaggio Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Air Products Foundation.
Where is Salvaggio Family Foundation based?
Salvaggio Family Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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