· Private foundation
Salt and Light Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Care Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County | $10,000 |
| Claris Classical Academy | $5,000 |
| MAN IN THE MIRROR | $5,000 |
| WITTENBERG MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Young Life | $2,200 |
| Women of Virtue Inc | $2,000 |
| ACTS 18 MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| CRU | $1,500 |
| Community Action Coalition | $1,000 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $500 |
| Baraboo Food Pantry | $500 |
| Lussier Community Education Center | $500 |
| Oregon Area Food Pantry | $500 |
| BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK | $500 |
| WAUNAKEE FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CNCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +107%
- MIMAN IN THE MIRROR INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +10%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES3× · 2018–2020 · $17k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- CCARENETone grant, 2022 · $25k
- ICIMPACT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- HPHIGH POINT CHURCH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Serve food to families and individuals in need.
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To provide food and clothing for the residents in madison, tennessee and surrounding davidson county residents that are in need. we also provide sack lunches to the homeless in the area.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Insight for living is a christian radio ministry that teaches the practical application of the bible. insight for living reaches audiences through radio sermons, compact disc recordings, dvd's, podcasts, internet access, books,…
To share god's love in the workplace by providing a personalized and proactive employee care service through chaplain teams.
Meet the growing demand among families for supplemental food in southern brazoria county.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Feed the hungry and clothe the needy
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is James Monroe Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 68 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Acts 18 Ministry Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHARIS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JAMES MONROE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MCFARLAND COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKETS FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Area Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Green County Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds DEFOREST WINDSOR FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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.
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
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 and Light 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.
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.