Salomon Family Foundation

Salomon Family Foundation

Kira Rodriguez serves as president of the Salomon Family Foundation, which Morton Salomon and his family founded in 1996. The foundation's original mandate targeted the treatment of child abuse, with a specific emphasis on sexual abuse. Over nearly three decades, the charter expanded to include food security, climate change, and environmental protection, alongside support for local organizations the family knows well. Grantmaking concentrates on direct-services nonprofits that meet the foundation's dual requirement of economic stability and documented programmatic success. Past grantees include the Aetna Foundation's Children Center at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Edesia Nutrition in Rhode Island, and the Child Protection Center at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Additional partnerships extend to Heifer International in Arkansas, Grassroots International in Boston, and Children's Cove in Barnstable, signaling a geographic footprint weighted toward the Northeast but not confined to it. Treasurer Morton Salomon anchors a board composed entirely of family members — Vice President Lydia Kurchin, trustees Dany Labelle and Juliet Harrison — with no outside professional staff publicly identified. The foundation holds a commercial property in Lake Success, New York, alongside a corporate stock portfolio, implying an endowment-style asset base that funds its charitable distributions. Morton Salomon also serves on the board of the Monterey Meeting House preservation nonprofit in Massachusetts, a secondary civic affiliation. The foundation's structural differentiator is its board composition: all governance resides with Salomon family members, which keeps grant decisions inside the family circle without the layer of a program-officer team. That governance model contrasts with professionally staffed foundations of similar vintage and may shape the pace of charter expansion for the next generation.