· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE | $1,000 |
| JILL'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING | $1,000 |
| US CAMPAIGN FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- SPST PETER AND PAUL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $7k
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 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 FOUNDATION FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Salem Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Salem Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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