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.

The Samuel Salmanson Foundation

The Samuel Salmanson Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$4k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$33kReligion$30kHealth$21kEducation$10kArts & Culture$7kHuman Services$6kCivil Rights$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$800

Median grant

States reached

$379k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF DANA FARBER	$3,500
TEMPLE SINAI	$2,000
MISC GIFTS 250	$1,700
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH	$1,300
TEMPLE ISRAEL	$1,050
DR PATRICK O'GARA RESEARCH FUND	$1,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$800
WASHINGTON LATIN PUBLIC CHARTER SCH	$500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$500
BHUTAN FOUNDATION	$500
ACLU	$500
COMMUNITY SERVINGS	$250
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS	$140

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$105k · 29 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$105k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%

+12%

Still filing today

41%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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CORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL
7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +161%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +62%
GB
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
6× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +89%

Funded once

FA
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +41%
DM
DR MARTIN SOLOMON MEDICAL EDUCATIO
one grant, 2019 · $2k
BS
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +22%

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.

04Its 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.

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shelter Animal Reiki Association. 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

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

24/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$101,737Education$8,000Philanthropy$6,680Arts & Culture$6,422Health$3,850Human Services$2,325International$1,300

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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home