Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Salem Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $492k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $72M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Salem Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $392k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.8M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $5.1M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $5.2M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $5.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edesia Inc | $6,250,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Year Up Inc | $5,900,000 | 4 | 1% |
| St Johns High School | $502,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Squashbusters Inc | $255,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Hospital Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Melmark New England Inc | $125,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Univ of Notre Dame | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Salem Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Salem Foundation
- How much does The Salem Foundation give?
- The Salem Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $492,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Salem Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (31%), Employment (30%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Salem Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Edesia Inc ($6.3M), Year Up Inc ($5.9M), St Johns High School ($503k).
- Does The Salem Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Salem Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Salem Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amica Companies Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
- Where is The Salem Foundation based?
- The Salem Foundation is based in MA.
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