Oregon · Nonprofit
SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION
SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,933,100 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($1,472,282). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Salem Health Foundation does
Mission
The Salem Health Foundation is dedicated to raising, managing and distributing funds to help salem health achieve its mission of improving the health and well-being of the people and community it serves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Proposals to fund capital equipment and medically related activities at salem health are received and reviewed by the foundation's chief development officer. Proposals are forwarded to the foundation's board of directors for further review and approval if they are considered to be consistent with the foundation's articles of incorporation, stating that its funds are to be used for health care, charitable, and scientific purposes, and for medical and scientific education and research for the use and benefit of salem health.
$942,659 spentof which $389,594 as grants86% of program spendingScholarships: nursing, medical school and other healthcare programs. Recipients of health care related academic scholarships and the amounts of the awards are determined by analyses of the candidates' qualifications, scholarship awards already awarded to them for the year by other organizations, and the costs of the specific schools the certain restricted funds have been created and are used for the purpose various candidates wish to attend.
$95,950 spentof which $95,950 as grants9% of program spendingCertain restricted funds have been created and are used for the purpose of assisting diabetes and cancer patients with the costs of their educational, supply and other care-related expenses. In addition, funds are distributed to assist low income individuals medical requirements.
$57,403 spentof which $57,403 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,096,012.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $9.5M (−19%).
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: 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Cheryl Nester Wolfe
CEO & president
Board chair
Pat Force
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $86k → $468k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Salem Health). These are real filings, and they are not money SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 64% · 2019 72% · 2020 53% · 2021 58% · 2022 71% · 2023 93% — broadly stable.
“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
60% of SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $350k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.
Against its field
SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $388k on record.
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$169k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$135k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$61k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$17k
- MEDICAL SERVICES$5k
- MEDICAL SUPPLIES$6
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 HEALTH FOUNDATION
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Hampshire Properties LLC · disregarded
- Salem Health · exempt
- Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics · exempt
- Salem Health West Valley · exempt
- West Valley Hospital Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION: 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,933,100 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($1,472,282). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,933,100 in grants to SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- THE SALEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,472,282 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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