Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Samuel Salmanson 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.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $379k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Samuel Salmanson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $13k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $13k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $13k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $14k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $12k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $17k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $11k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Israel Incorporated | $11,373 | 9 | n/a |
| Corporation of the Washington Latin School | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $3,025 | 3 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $2,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Spring Lake Ranch Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $1,657 | 1 | 0% |
| Encore Stage and Studio Inc | $1,600 | 5 | 0% |
| The Bhutan Foundation | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($79k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Samuel Salmanson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Samuel Salmanson Foundation
- How much does The Samuel Salmanson Foundation give?
- The Samuel Salmanson Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $13,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Samuel Salmanson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Religion (23%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Samuel Salmanson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Israel Incorporated ($11k), Corporation of the Washington Latin School ($8k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($3k).
- Does The Samuel Salmanson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Samuel Salmanson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Samuel Salmanson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Samuel Salmanson Foundation based?
- The Samuel Salmanson Foundation is based in MA.
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