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· Private foundation
THE SALMON FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$31k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
1
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Philanthropy$122kHuman Services$103kHealth$26kEducation$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$40k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
artshealth
2019
health
2020
health
2021
health
2022
health
2023
health
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$4,085
Median grant
1
States reached
$671k
Total assets
Largest grants
- METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION$7,372
- YOUTH VILLAGES$6,000
- SOUTHERN REINS CTR FOR EQUINE THERAPY$5,603
- AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC$4,085
- BODINE SCHOOL$3,000
- EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CENTER$3,000
- CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE OF TN$1,392
- PORTER-LEATH$800
02The need
04
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 (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$276k · 10 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
6
Total granted
$276k
$21k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+74%
+61%
Still filing today
60%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
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
- MIMETROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +85%
- EREPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT7× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +17%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +74%
Funded once
YOUTH VILLAGESgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +124%- SRSOUTHERN REINS CTR FOR EQUINE THERAPYone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +6%
- ACAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +61%
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
Methodist Medical Center
Methodist Medical Center is a 283-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Oak Ridge, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
Health
2
Cumberland Medical Center
Cumberland Medical Center is a 189-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Crossville, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
Health
3
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals
Methodist healthcare-memphis hospitals, in partnership with its medical staff, is the premier, comprehensive healthcare provider serving patients and families in its surrounding communities. high quality, patient and family-centered care…
Health
4
Sanctuary Counseling Center
Our mission is to provide affordable counseling to full-time vocational ministry workers and their families in memphis. our vision is to resource the local church and parachurch ministries in memphis through personal counseling, preemptive…
Health
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc
The mission of Ronald McDonald house charities of Memphis is to provide temporary housing at no charge for families who are in Memphis while their child is receiving treatment for cancer or another catastrophic illness at St. Jude…
Health
6
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc
Management and supervision of affiliated hospitals
Health
7
Little Lighthouse Central Mississippi
To glorify god by improving the quality of life for children with special needs.
Education
8
Memphis Recovery Centers Inc
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Health
9
United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc
Uwgn unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual & family thrives
Philanthropy
10
Roane County Medical Center
Roane County Medical Center is a 54-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Harriman, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
Health
11
Mission Mississippi
"to encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message"
Civil Rights
12
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
Public Benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Episcopal Relief and Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$121,500Human Services$103,372Other$40,277Health$26,103Education$3,500Arts & Culture$2,500
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF THE MID-SOUTH ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN REINS CTR FOR EQUINE THERAPY ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
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.
Community FoundationTN21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Christian Community Foundation Of · Plough Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Belz Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation THE SALMON 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTHERN REINS CTR FOR EQUINE THERAPY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~27 months of operating runway; revenue held over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 474647784 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SOUTHERN REINS CTR FOR EQUINE THERAPY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 27 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Salmon Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Salmon Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines