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The Tim Salmon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$84kHealth$45kCrime & Legal$35kHousing & Shelter$30kEducation$17kRecreation & Sports$13kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Restore Ministries$12,000
Hope Harbor$5,000
God's Pantry$5,000
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$5,000
African Bible College$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST TERESA COUNCIL: $500 → 11%CONCEPT 7: $10k → 10%God's Pantry: $5k → 14%NEIL PITTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%RESTORE MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%Restore Ministries: $12k → 16%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10k → 15%JOSHIAH VENTURE: $5k → 7%African Bible College: $8k → 23%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 11%LAUREL HOUSE: $5k → 10%Restore Ministries: $12k → 16%FCA: $7k → 15%African Bible College: $2k → 23%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ARIZONA URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER: $25k → 10%FCA: $3k → 15%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%AZ FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $3k → 11%ANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: $5k → 8%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%SCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCH: $10k → 11%FAMILY MATTERS: $6k → 11%FAMILY MATTERS: $6k → 11%FAMILY MATTERS: $6k → 11%Scottsdale Bible Church: $5k → 11%PHOENIX SEMINARY: $5k → 11%SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6k → 11%SCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 11%SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACAD: $5k → 11%Phoenix Seminary: $5k → 11%SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACAD: $1k → 11%FAMILY MATTERS: $500 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
CA
MO
MD
AZ
MS
AL
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Tim Salmon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Tim Salmon Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$189k · 10 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$189k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-29%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +29%
  • LH
    Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor
    3× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +53%
  • SC
    SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +100%
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.

1
Champion Christian College Inc

To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.

Education
2
His University

His university provides graduate and undergraduate degree and diploma education and training for his family ministry specialists who desire to pursue careers in counseling and ministry.

Education
3
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
4
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
5
Family of Faith Christian University a Corporation

Family of faith christian university was founded by the decree of the holy spirit for the purpose of educating, discipling, and training laborers for the kingdom of god.

Education
6
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
7
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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8
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
9
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
10
Alaska Bible College

In accordance with the mandate of matthew 28:19-20 and 2 timothy 2:2, alaska bible college seeks to train servants who lead with christlike character by 1.) nurturing students in bible-based, academic programs that solidify their christian…

Education
11
Ariel Ministries

Ariel ministries exists to bring the good news of the messiah to jewish people and to disciple believers through intensive bible teaching from a messianic jewish perspective and dispensational theological position. continued on schedule o

Religion
12
Phillips Theological Seminary Corporation

The seminary's mission is to learn and teach how to be: attentive to god; responsible biblical and theological interpreters; faithful individuals, congregations, and communities acting with god to transform the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes; the most unlike its peers is Neal Pitts Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor: $30,000 · OtherLaurel House Inc dba Hope HarborCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER: $25,000 · OtherCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTERRestore Ministries: $24,000 · OtherRestore MinistriesSCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCH: $20,002 · OtherSCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCHFAMILY MATTERS INC: $18,000 · OtherFAMILY MATTERS INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientConcept 7 Inc: $10,000 · OtherConcept 7 IncFCA: $9,250 · OtherFCA+3 more: $4,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FO…SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $12,292 · EducationSCOTTSDALE CHRI…PHOENIX SEMINARY INC: $10,000 · EducationPHOENIX SEMINAR…AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC: $9,977 · EducationAFRICAN BIBLE C…Grand Canyon University: $5,000 · EducationGrand Canyon Un…HOPE HARBOR INC: $10,000 · ReligionJosiah Venture: $5,000 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentARIZONA URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES DBA ARIZONA URBAN YOUTH EXCEL: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentRESTORE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Crime & LegalGODS PANTRY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNEAL PITTS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$150,252Health$45,000Education$37,269Religion$15,000Youth Development$12,000Crime & Legal$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Philanthropy$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor: $30,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetFAMILY MATTERS INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $12,292 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcept 7 Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESTORE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetHOPE HARBOR INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPHOENIX SEMINARY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC: $9,977 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJosiah Venture: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES DBA ARIZONA URBAN YOUTH EXCEL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEAL PITTS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Thrivent Financial fo…Servant FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Thrivent Financial for LutheransMN12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Tim Salmon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tim Salmon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–40%
    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 24 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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