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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MFood & Nutrition$1.0MYouth Development$340kCivil Rights$125kArts & Culture$51kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $784k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND$1,625,250
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$375,000
HBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INC$200,000
POINT FOUNDATION$100,000
STONY BROOK FOUNDATION$100,000
YOUR CAUSE LLC FBO THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$99,254
DC COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM$75,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE$60,000
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MADITERRANEAN$50,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$50,000
TECHPOINT FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH$35,000
EPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION$35,000
BOTTOM LINE$25,000
LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIS FOUNDATION INC: $50 → 11%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE INC: $500 → 17%EPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $35k → 4%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125k → 17%EPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $35k → 4%EPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $35k → 4%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
WY
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
VA
DE
AZ
AR
TN
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 15 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
47

Total granted

$7.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+34%

Still filing today

60%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DS
    DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +10%
  • HW
    HBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +4%
  • PF
    POINT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +31%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +11%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arc of Gloucester. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
40/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Thurgood Marshall College Fund: $4,491,500 · EducationThurgood Marshall College FundDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITYHBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EducationHBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INCPOINT FOUNDATION: $350,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATION+7 more: $386,075 · Education+7 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $651,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREAT…(HACU) HISPANIC ASSOC OF COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: $250,000 · Other(HACU) HISPANIC ASSOC OF COLL…GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $200,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $200,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCUTAH FOOD BANK: $200,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKYOUR CAUSE LLC: $195,541 · OtherYOUR CAUSE LLCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $170,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWAR…YOUR CAUSE LLC FBO THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $99,254 · OtherTECHPOINT FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH: $95,000 · Other+42 more: $547,916 · Other+42 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesEPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $105,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $550 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $200,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $250 · Food & NutritionLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $200,000 · ReligionNETWORK FOR GOOD: $151,796 · Public Safety & DisasterENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $356 · Philanthropy
Education$6,327,575Other$2,608,711Human Services$255,550Food & Nutrition$200,250Religion$200,000Public Safety & Disaster$151,796Philanthropy$125,356

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $4,491,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $170,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $151,796 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $105,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Delaware Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATE BRAIN CANCER CURE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR DOG HAVEN & HOSPICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $56 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEPULSE FOUNDATION INC: $49 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEA ROSE FOUNDATION OF PHI ALPHA OMEGA: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Longwood Foundation I…Wsfs Cares FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Nor' Easter Foundatio…Incyte Charitable Giv…United Way of DelawareLaffey-McHugh Foundat…Delaware Community Fo…The Struthers Family …Wakefield Family Fund…Crestlea Foundation I…Welfare Foundation Inc
Longwood Foundation IncDE17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sallie Mae Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sallie Mae Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Christiana Care Health System Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Latin American Community Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Hbcu Week Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sallie Mae Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sallie Mae Fund Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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