· Private foundation
The Salmon Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| BODINE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE OF TN | $1,392 |
| PORTER-LEATH | $800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +33%
- EREPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT7× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +17%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +145%
Funded once
YOUTH VILLAGES INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +17%- SRSOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPYone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +4%
- ACAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +31%
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.
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.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BODINE OF GERMANTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
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: Plough Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Belz Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · David C and Pamela N Anderson Private Foundation · The McDonnell Family Foundation · Lawrence Lewis Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Salmon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Salmon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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