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The Salem Family Foundation Inc
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 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 $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC | $25,000 |
| BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| ARAB GULF STATES INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTL PEACE | $10,000 |
| GEORGETOWN U CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARAB STUDIES | $5,000 |
| TIDES CENTER - PALESTINE LEGAL | $5,000 |
| MCLEAN LITTLE LEAGUE | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT | $2,000 |
| US CAMPAIGN FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS | $1,000 |
| CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING | $1,000 |
| JILL'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- UPUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +400%
- TMTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE6× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +100%
- CECARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- RFRAMALLAH FRIENDS SCHOOL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $19k
- IOINSTITUTE OF PALESTINIAN STUDIESone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FUFRIENDS UNITED MEETING INCone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The middle east policy council is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan eductional organization. founded in 1981, the mission of the council is to foster public discussion of the political, economic, cultural and security issues that…
Educate elected officials, policy-makers, and voters and advocate in congress and the executive branch for us policies that advance palestinian right and freedom.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The african middle eastern leadership project's mission is to mobilize, empower, and unite young leaders and activists from the middle east and africa to build resilient, inclusive societies that are free from discrimination, persecution,…
Educate the public and emerging leaders on middle east affairs and regional impact
The alliance for middle east peace (allmep) leads a network of 200+ civil society organizations working to create the conditions for security, peace, and freedom for both israelis and palestinians. our member ngos build trust,…
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
Our mission is to create hope, opportunity, and mutual understanding among people in the middle east, north africa, and the united states through life-changing opportunities for education and cultural exchanges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Middle East Institute and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Middle East Peace. 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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Education For Just Peace in Middle East ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds ARAB GULF STATES INSTITUTE IN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds Just Vision Inc ↗
- Who funds DC Affordable Law Firm ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ↗
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: Kiblawi Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Impactassetsinc · Foundation for Middle East Peace · The Andoni Family Foundation · Eissa a Bateh & Brothers Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Salem Family Foundation Inc 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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