Oregon · Nonprofit
SALEM FREE CLINICS
SALEM FREE CLINICS (Oregon) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,160,786 to it, the largest being SALEM HEALTH ($777,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Salem Free Clinics does
Mission
Salem Free Clinics exists as an expression of christ's love to bridge the gap in healthcare access by providing quality compassionate care at no cost to those in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our medical clinic serves the uninsured population in our community who lack access to basic primary care. Although we see a wide variety of presenting conditions, the top three diagnoses for our patient population are diabetes, hypertension and mental health. In 2023, we provided 3,424 medical patient visits utilizing 228 volunteers.
$1,049,309 spent91% of program spendingOur dental clinic serves the uninsured population in our community who lack access to basic dental care. We provide extractions and simple fillings for those who have significant dental issues, including abscess and decay. We also provide dental hygiene services through our partnership with chemeketa community college and oregon institute of technology's program in dental hygiene. Graduating seniors do rotations at our clinic and provide preventative care for our uninsured patients. In 2023, 506 patient visits were provided through the service of 12 volunteers.
$88,711 spent8% of program spendingOur counseling clinic serves the uninsured population in our community who lack access to counseling services. We partner with corban university who send their graduate level counseling students to our clinic to provide counseling services to the uninsured. In 2023, 1,967 client visit hours were provided through the service of 20 volunteers.
$21,017 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,159,037.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.8M (+118%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2022 24% · 2023 1% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Trina Fowler
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $186k → $378k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SALEM FREE CLINICS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SALEM FREE CLINICS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SALEM FREE CLINICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 27% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
56% of SALEM FREE CLINICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of SALEM FREE CLINICS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $794k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding SALEM FREE CLINICS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $269k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$172k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$97k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SALEM FREE CLINICS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALEM FREE CLINICS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SALEM FREE CLINICS?
- SALEM FREE CLINICS (Oregon) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,160,786 to it, the largest being SALEM HEALTH ($777,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALEM FREE CLINICS have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,160,786 in grants to SALEM FREE CLINICS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALEM FREE CLINICS?
- SALEM HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $777,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALEM FREE CLINICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing