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The Martin and Nora Salzman Foundation at a glance

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The Martin and Nora Salzman Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2026still arriving
32
Grants FY2026still arriving
7
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$156kHealth$135kEducation$51kReligion$23kInternational$14kArts & Culture$6kFood & Nutrition$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2026 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k29 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$328k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH JERSEY$11,000
JEFFERSON CENTER FOR INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION$10,000
COOPER FOUNDATION$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,500
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$2,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$2,000
ADL$1,000
AMERICARES$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$500
BKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$500
CENTER SCHOOL PTA$500
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$500
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–26, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT OPEN: $250 → 17%PROJECT OPEN: $250 → 17%PROJECT OPEN: $250 → 17%PROJECT OPEN: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
SD
PA
NJ
CT
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$435k · 46 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
21

Total granted

$435k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

59%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • TC
    THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2019–2026 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • NY
    New York University
    8× · 2019–2026 · $14k · revenue +51%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2025–2026 · $8k · revenue ×15

Funded once

  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +13%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -1%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · $540
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.

1
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
12
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is J R Masterman Home & School Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH JERSEY: $127,619 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH JERSEYTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NJ: $31,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NJJEFFERSON CENTER FOR INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: $30,000 · OtherJEFFERSON CENTER FOR INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONKATZ JCC: $21,700 · OtherKATZ JCCJEFFERSON HEALTH THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $20,100 · OtherJEFFERSON HEALTH THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY+33 more: $45,225 · Other+33 moreNew York University: $14,250 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $2,500 · EducationJ R MASTERMAN HOME & SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $1,000 · Education+3 more: $1,150 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,500 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $3,750 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,950 · InternationalCITY OF REFUGE INC: $1,000 · InternationalTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $850 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $750 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · Health+5 more: $1,010 · HealthROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $4,100 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $3,750 · PhilanthropySHALOM AUSTIN: $500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $500 · PhilanthropyGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $2,260 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $1,750 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC: $900 · Arts & CultureTHE WILMA THEATER: $600 · Arts & CultureSESAME WORKSHOP: $500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $375 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $144 · Arts & CulturePhilabundance: $2,900 · Food & Nutrition
Other$376,144Education$24,400International$24,200Health$12,110Philanthropy$8,850Arts & Culture$6,529Food & Nutrition$2,900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University: $14,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $2,260 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,350 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJ R MASTERMAN HOME & SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHYY INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT OPEN INC: $850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: $144 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds J R MASTERMAN HOME & SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF REFUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗

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 Robert Wood Johns…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNJ12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Martin and Nora Salzman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Martin and Nora Salzman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 76 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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