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Salt and Light Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 32
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$71k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Salt and Light Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionReligionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$41k17%
FY202321$57k33%
FY202220$48k25%
FY202123$23k4%
FY202022$33k23%
FY201923$38k9%
FY201832$51k44%
FY201730$33kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$134kHuman Services$54kEducation$39kFood & Nutrition$33kHealth$26kRecreation & Sports$17kEnvironment$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
IA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Salt and Light Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Care Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County Inc$48,50052%
Man in the Mirror Inc$31,50080%
Impact Christian Academy Inc$25,0001n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$17,00030%
Acts 18 Ministry Incorporated$10,75081%
Workplace Chaplaincy Foundation Inc$5,5004n/a
James Monroe Memorial Foundation$5,0001n/a
Charis Classical Academy Incorporated$5,00010%
McFarland Community Food Pantry Inc$3,05081%
Wayforward Resources Inc$3,05080%
Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc$3,05080%
Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin Inc$2,75060%
Young Life$2,20010%
Oregon Area Food Pantry$2,15050%
Badger Prairie Needs Network Inc$2,15050%
Buckets for Hunger Inc$2,15052%
Women of Virtue Inc$2,0001n/a
Green County Food Pantry Inc$1,75050%
The River Food Pantry Inc$1,75050%
The Navigators$1,0003n/a
Focus on the Family$1,0001n/a
Deforest Windsor Food Pantry Inc$1,00021%
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA$1,0001n/a
Dallas Theological Seminary$80020%
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi$80020%
Jesusonline Ministries$6002n/a
Lussier Community Education Center Inc$60020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$50010%
Shelter From the Storm Ministries Inc$50010%
Sat-7 North America$50010%
Wisconsin Lutheran Institutional Ministries Inc$5001n/a
Baraboo Food Pantry Inc$50011%
Ligonier Ministries Inc$30010%
Living on the Edge Ministries Inc$30010%
Gideons International$3001n/a
Prophecy Watchers Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Salt and Light Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCare Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County Inc: $48,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMan in the Mirror Inc: $31,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetActs 18 Ministry Incorporated: $10,750 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCharis Classical Academy Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMcFarland Community Food Pantry Inc: $3,050 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWayforward Resources Inc: $3,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIrwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc: $3,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin Inc: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Area Food Pantry: $2,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBadger Prairie Needs Network Inc: $2,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBuckets for Hunger Inc: $2,150 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGreen County Food Pantry Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe River Food Pantry Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDeforest Windsor Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLussier Community Education Center Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter From the Storm Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSat-7 North America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaraboo Food Pantry Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLigonier Ministries Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProphecy Watchers Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi · United Way of Dane County Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · First Business Charitable Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Attic Angel Association · Madison Rotary Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Salt and Light Foundation Inc

How much does Salt and Light Foundation Inc give?
Salt and Light Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $40,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Salt and Light Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Human Services (17%), Education (12%).
Who are Salt and Light Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Care Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County Inc ($49k), Man in the Mirror Inc ($32k), Impact Christian Academy Inc ($25k).
Does Salt and Light Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Salt and Light Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Salt and Light Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi, United Way of Dane County Inc.
Where is Salt and Light Foundation Inc based?
Salt and Light Foundation Inc is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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