Delaware · Private foundation
The Sallie Mae Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,625,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Sallie Mae Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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 | 21 | $3.0M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.5M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.6M | 70% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.4M | 86% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.7M | 90% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $195k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $148k | 97% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund | $4,491,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Delaware State University | $600,000 | 2 | 0% |
| HBCU Week Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Point Foundation | $350,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $210,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Delaware Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Utah Food Bank | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loudoun Hunger Relief Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sallie Mae Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Longwood Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Struthers Family Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Sallie Mae Fund Inc
- How much does The Sallie Mae Fund Inc give?
- The Sallie Mae Fund Inc reported 21 grants totaling $2,994,540 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sallie Mae Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (73%), Philanthropy (10%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are The Sallie Mae Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Thurgood Marshall College Fund ($4.5M), Delaware State University ($600k), HBCU Week Foundation Inc ($500k).
- Does The Sallie Mae Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sallie Mae Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sallie Mae Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Longwood Foundation Inc, Wsfs Cares Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is The Sallie Mae Fund Inc based?
- The Sallie Mae Fund Inc is based in DE.
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