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The Salem Foundation

THE SALEM FOUNDATION exists for the purpose of receiving, safeguarding, and disbursing funds for charitable purposes in the vicinity of salem, oregon.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
123
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$10MReligion$8.0MHealth$3.2MEducation$3.2MHousing & Shelter$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.8MYouth Development$1.6MArts & Culture$878kOther$0
02FY2025 · 123 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+10 grants · $7.3M
$12,626
Median grant
26
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,750,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,601,579
MARION POLK FOOD SHARE INC$1,060,224
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC$965,044
THE ZACK PACKARD FOUNDATION$390,000
ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON$390,000
LIBERTY HOUSE$332,202
DIOCESE OF HELENA$320,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$263,350
FRANCISCAN MISSIONS$261,580
FAMILY YMCA OF MARION & POLK CO$208,046
HORSES OF HOPE OREGON$151,500
ST FRANCIS FAMILY HOUSING$145,880
SALEM FREE CLINICS$141,000
GILBERT HOUSE CHILDRENS MUSEUM$130,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAINT JOSEPH'S HOUSE: $12k → 6%UNBOUND: $13k → 16%SILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID: $10k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $34k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS -CASCADE: $13k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS -CASCADE: $12k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $75k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $25k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $80k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $78k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $60k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $40k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $34k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $15k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $15k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM: $13k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $965k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $828k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $364k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $238k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $207k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $159k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $59k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $52k → 14%CASA OF MARION COUNTY: $77k → 14%CASA OF MARION COUNTY: $50k → 14%CASA OF MARION COUNTY: $50k → 14%CASA OF MARION COUNTY: $50k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUND: $47k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUND: $14k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%Salem Leadership Foundation: $11k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUND: $11k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $9k → 14%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1.6M → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $332k → 14%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $263k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $202k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $186k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $45k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $35k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $31k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $30k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $24k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $12k → 14%SAFETY COMPASS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 80 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

80 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
40

Total granted

$30M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+41%

Still filing today

71%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +103%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +12%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • AO
    ACRES OF HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $153k · revenue -17% · 25% of their budget
  • LH
    LEGACY HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +86%
  • SM
    SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center

Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…

Health
2
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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3
Salem Catholic Schools Foundation

The mission of the Salem Catholic Schools Foundation is to solicit, receive, and invest gifts to provide a continuing source of funds to support excellence of Catholic education in the greater Salem area.

Education
4
Salem Health

To improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
5
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…

Health
6
Salem Health and Wellness Foundation Inc
Health
7
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital

Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…

Health
8
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital

Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…

Health
9
Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Ontario Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint alphonsus medical center-ontario is a member of saint…

Health
10
University of Portland

The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…

Education
11
Eugene Christian School

To assist families by proving a Christ-centered bible-based education that inspires each student to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and pursue excellence in moral character, academics, and service to others.

Education
12
Oregon Family School

Partnering with parents to provide a rich, innovative, and effective home- based education that nurtures academic success and personal growth.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of the Mid- Willamette Valley & Central Coast and the most unlike its peers is Home Share Oregon. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/188
the rest of the field
11%
2,768/25,243

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.

04the grantee network

120 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. 120 of the 189 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/120
Grantees still filing
68/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $2,440,000 · OtherTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGONCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $1,925,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATIONST JOSEPH PARISH — $1,792,052 · OtherST JOSEPH PARISHTHE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES — $1,672,483 · OtherTHE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND PO…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF SALEM — $1,202,576 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF SALEMWillamette Regional Education — $1,040,030 · OtherWillamette Regional EducationST FRANCIS SHELTER — $925,643 · Other+111 more — $7,356,175 · Other+111 moreCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID- WILLAMETTE VALLEY & CENTRAL COAST — $3,674,245 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES …FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $2,876,854 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INCLIBERTY HOUSE — $619,532 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOUSEASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON — $333,100 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $295,250 · Human Services+11 more — $613,256 · Human Services+11 moreSALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,472,282 · HealthOREGON HEALTH AND EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE — $195,000 · HealthLEGACY HEALTH — $150,000 · HealthSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $100,000 · Health+6 more — $176,445 · HealthMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $1,462,678 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY RESOURCE TR — $282,146 · Food & NutritionSALEM DREAM CENTER — $62,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $10,000 · Food & NutritionWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $315,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY ACADEMY — $267,595 · EducationARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL — $242,000 · EducationCHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $153,785 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY — $120,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $102,417 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $90,917 · EducationSANTIAM CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $50,000 · Education+9 more — $155,655 · EducationREID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC — $300,000 · ReligionACRES OF HOPE — $152,750 · ReligionCHURCH AT THE PARK — $135,000 · ReligionFR BERNARD YOUTH CENTER INC — $120,000 · ReligionSYCAMORE TREE — $120,000 · ReligionINSIGHT FOR LIVING — $35,584 · Religion+9 more — $123,475 · ReligionTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $472,000 · Arts & CultureENLIGHTENED THEATRICS — $126,000 · Arts & CultureMT ANGEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $90,000 · Arts & CultureSALEM ART ASSOCIATION — $81,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM — $30,964 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $44,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$18,353,959Human Services$8,412,237Health$2,093,727Food & Nutrition$1,816,824Education$1,497,369Religion$986,809Arts & Culture$844,964

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID- WILLAMETTE VALLEY & CENTRAL COAST — $3,674,245 over 8y, 11% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $2,876,854 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $2,440,000 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $1,925,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES — $1,672,483 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetSALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,472,282 over 6y, 25% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $1,462,678 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetST FRANCIS SHELTER — $925,643 over 9y, 46% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE — $619,532 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB — $530,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGON — $481,990 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $472,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetSALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON — $333,100 over 8y, 15% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $326,309 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $315,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $295,250 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE TR — $282,146 over 4y, 86% of budgetHOLY FAMILY ACADEMY — $267,595 over 4y, 29% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY — $256,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL — $242,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSALEM FREE CLINICS — $236,500 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetCASA OF MARION COUNTY INC — $227,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetOREGON HEALTH AND EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE — $195,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM — $185,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetHome Share Oregon — $155,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $153,785 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetACRES OF HOPE — $152,750 over 1y, 25% of budgetLEGACY HEALTH — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $135,838 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH AT THE PARK — $135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetENLIGHTENED THEATRICS — $126,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetFR BERNARD YOUTH CENTER INC — $120,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $117,623 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $102,417 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSILVERTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM-KEIZER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $97,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSALEM INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK — $95,891 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $90,917 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $88,948 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM ART ASSOCIATION — $81,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $78,349 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY — $71,700 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMT ANGEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE SALEM FOUNDATION — $64,299 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID- WILLAMETTE VALLEY & CENTRAL COAST ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGON ↗
  • Who funds THE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZACK PACKARD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds REID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE TR ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SALEM FREE CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH AND EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ISAAC'S ROOM ↗
  • Who funds Home Share Oregon ↗
  • Who funds CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACRES OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗

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.

Maps Community Founda…The Oregon Community …United Way of the Mid…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Willamette Health Cou…Salem HealthGelco Charitable Foun…Pioneer Trust Bank Na…Marie Lamfrom Charita…W Walton Decd Charita…The Ford Family Found…Braemar Charitable Tr…
Maps Community FoundationOR92.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maps Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Willamette Health Council · Salem Health · Gelco Charitable Foundation · Pioneer Trust Bank Na Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · W Walton Decd Charitable Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust

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 Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 390%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Detroit Lake Foundation — 100% of income from government
  • Community Vision Inc — 92% of income from government
  • Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — 81% of income from government
  • Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality — 77% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
  • Salem Main Street Association — 67% of income from government
  • Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection — 44% of income from government
  • Salem for Refugees — 35% of income from government
  • Garten Services Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Safety Compass — 25% of income from government
  • Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network — 25% of income from government
  • Liberty House — 23% of income from government
  • Chemeketa Community College Foundation — 22% of income from government
  • Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
  • Church at the Park — 12% of income from government
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
  • Isaac's Room — 5% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon — 5% of income from government
  • Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Salem Leadership Foundation — 3% of income from government
  • Capital Futbol Club — 2% of income from government
  • Willamette University — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association in Salem — 1% of income from government
  • Salem Art Association — 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Marion County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Santiam Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • The Willamette Heritage Center — 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Garden Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Salem Health Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Catholic Community Services Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Legacy Health — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
39get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Salem Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Salem Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 189 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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