· Private foundation
The Salmon Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $855k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUNSTON DAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| CHANGING PERSPECTIVES | $40,000 |
| THE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| MADONNA PLACE INC | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MARTINS HOUSE & BARN | $30,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $30,000 |
| OPERATION SECOND CHANCE | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Salmon Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CPCHANGING PERSPECTIVES4× · 2020–2023 · $210k · revenue +195%
- TOTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +32%
- TFTHE FAMILY PLACE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TYTHE YMCA QUEEN ANNES COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CFCHILD & FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CT INCone grant, 2020 · $35k
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Oliverian is a non-profit, alternative, college-prep boarding school for adolescents who have not thrived in traditional settings. we fill the gap between traditional and therapeutic schools, providing the right mix of support and guided…
Children's services
Our purpose is to establish an educational foundation of curiosity, confidence, and competence while practicing kindness to oneself, the community and nature.
The bement school provides an education based on time-honored school traditions and values for children in kindergarten through ninth grade, day and boarding. from the classrooms to the dorms, we live and learn as a family, while…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
Hilltop montessori school's mission is for students to practice responsible independence in a caring community of curious, critical learners and thoughtful citizens.
We know, value, and challenge each student. we commit to building a diverse and inclusive community. we graduate independent thinkers and globally aware citizens.
The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.
Harvard-westlake strives to be a diverse and inclusive community united by the joyful pursuit of educational excellence, living and learning with integrity, and purpose beyond ourselves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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. 57 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS YOU HOLD INC ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Union Institute & University ↗
- Who funds FARMERS & HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The May Foundation of Maryland · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · The Couch Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Clifton Foundation Inc · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation Inc
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 Salmon Foundation Inc 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.
- The Life Experience School Inc — 75% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Killington Mountain School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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