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The Salvin Foundation at a glance

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The Salvin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$573kHealth$50kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$22kCrime & Legal$18kCivil Rights$12k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA ACADEMY INC$100,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3k → 10%NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $3k → 17%LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 20%CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK INC: $5k → 10%CLEAR LAKE FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 16%KIDZ1STFUND INC: $50k → 22%NSORO FOUNDATION INC: $300k → 8%ATLANTA ACADEMY INC: $100k → 13%FEEDING AMERICA: $8k → 14%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1k → 17%CHILD ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $10k → 16%NSORO FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 8%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $4k → 14%THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $25k → 17%NSORO FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 8%NSORO FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%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.
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 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
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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2
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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5
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Northern Illinois Food Bank

With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…

Food & Nutrition
10
Arkansas Foodbank

None

Food & Nutrition
11
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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12
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for New York City; the most unlike its peers is KIDZ1STFUND Inc. 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

14 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.

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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NSORO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $473,150 · EducationNSORO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCTHE ATLANTA ACADEMY INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE ATLANTA ACADEMY INCKIDZ1STFUND INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $8,333 · Crime & LegalFeeding America: $8,333 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $4,575 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,762 · Food & NutritionClear Lake Food Pantry: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $8,333 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $3,333 · Civil RightsSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,100 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,095 · Community Improvement
Education$573,150Health$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000Crime & Legal$18,333Food & Nutrition$17,670Civil Rights$11,666Other$3,100Community Improvement$1,095

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNSORO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $473,150 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetTHE ATLANTA ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIDZ1STFUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $4,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $3,762 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,095 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClear Lake Food Pantry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Salvin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Salvin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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