· Private foundation
Salt and Light Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $40,000 |
| KENAI CLASSICAL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| DELTA STREET ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| ROOTED MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS | $20,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Reformed University Fellowship | $20,000 |
| LAWNDALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| LUKE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA | $10,000 |
| NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ALONGSIDE U | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMROOTED MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +339%
- LCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +36%
- AAlongsideU4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CCCITY CHURCH - GREENSBOROone grant, 2020 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- MTMission to the World AMBASSADORSone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
To preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
To mobilize the body of Christ to demonstrate Christs compassion through local churches for the advancement of the gospel. We desire to prepare church members as the body of Christ to be ready to serve by equipping them and providing…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
To support christian ministries throughout the world
Provide humanitarian aid and christian discipleship.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
One another ministries provides member care, counseling, training,and crisis management services to christian organizations and 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.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ROOTED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AlongsideU ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERED TO CONNECT ↗
- Who funds PERU MISSION USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Salt and Light Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Salt and Light Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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