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Salt & Light Charitable Works Foundation Inc

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.

$153k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$491kFood & Nutrition$143kHousing & Shelter$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kCivil Rights$33kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
$7,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$45,000
SACRED HEART SOUTHERN MISSIONS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
THE PROVINCE OF ST MARY OF THE$10,000
LONG ISLAND CARES$7,500
INFANT JESUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$7,500
THE CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY$7,500
SAINT LAWRENCE SEMINARY$5,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$5,000
OBLATES OF THE VIRGIN MARY$5,000
PRIESTS OF SACRED HEART- SH SOUTH$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%ISLAND HARVEST: $5k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES: $15k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $15k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $10k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $10k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $8k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$818k · 18 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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21

Total granted

$818k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+10%

Still filing today

33%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesReligionPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LI
    Long Island Cares Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +7%
  • CN
    CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +57%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DIVINE MERCY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • DO
    DAUGHTERS OF MARY MIH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

2
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
4
Health and Welfare Council of Long Island Inc

Serve the most vulnerable on li by convening and supporting agencies that serve them

Health
5
Catholic Health System of Long Island

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities

6
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

7
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
9
Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc

The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…

Food & Nutrition
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Inc

The aclu is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending and protecting our constitutional and civil rights and personal freedoms.

11
St Francis Hospital

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
12
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dynamic Catholic Institute. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRIESTS OF SACRED HEART- SH SOUTH — $120,000 · OtherPRIESTS OF SACRED HEART- SH SOUTHIndividual grant recipient — $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER — $65,000 · OtherPROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDERIndividual grant recipient — $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSACRED HEART SOUTHERN MISSIONS — $45,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SOUTHERN MISSIONSINFANT JESUS PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRY — $45,000 · OtherINFANT JESUS PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRYCAPUCHIN FRANCISCANS OF PROVINCE — $45,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN FRANCISCANS OF PROVINCEINFANT JESUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — $37,500 · OtherTHE PROVINCE OF ST MARY OF THE — $30,000 · Other+19 more — $180,250 · Other+19 moreLong Island Cares Inc — $62,500 · Human ServicesLong Island …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…ISLAND HARVEST LTD — $5,000 · Human ServicesCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $50,000 · Food & NutritionCATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS — $25,000 · Civil RightsAmericans United for Life Inc — $5,000 · Civil RightsSusan B Anthony List Education Fund — $2,500 · Civil RightsFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $25,000 · InternationalEUCHARISTIC APOSTLES OF DIVINE MERCY INC — $5,000 · ReligionTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $500 · ReligionSetauket Fire Department Inc — $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$707,750Human Services$112,500Housing & Shelter$55,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Civil Rights$32,500International$25,000Religion$5,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLong Island Cares Inc — $62,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED — $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS — $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUCHARISTIC APOSTLES OF DIVINE MERCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSetauket Fire Department Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Long Island Cares Inc
  • Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS
  • Who funds Americans United for Life Inc
  • Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD
  • Who funds EUCHARISTIC APOSTLES OF DIVINE MERCY INC
  • Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund
  • Who funds Setauket Fire Department Inc
  • Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The US Charitable Gift TrustMA12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Salt & Light Charitable Works Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Salt & Light Charitable Works Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Salt & Light Charitable Works Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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