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Salt and Light Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Salt and Light Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$71k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Care Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County$10,000
MAN IN THE MIRROR$5,000
WITTENBERG MINISTRIES$5,000
Claris Classical Academy$5,000
Young Life$2,200
Women of Virtue Inc$2,000
CRU$1,500
ACTS 18 MINISTRY$1,500
Community Action Coalition$1,000
SUN PRAIRIE FOOD PANTRY$500
Lussier Community Education Center$500
GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER$500
BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK$500
BUCKETS FOR HUNGER$500
Oregon Area Food Pantry$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%Baraboo Food Pantry: $500 → 16%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $400 → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $400 → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $350 → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $300 → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $300 → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $300 → 10%CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC: $15k → 10%CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC: $10k → 10%CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC: $7k → 10%CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC: $7k → 10%Lussier Community Education Center: $500 → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $100 → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $500 → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $500 → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $400 → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $400 → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $350 → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $300 → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $300 → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $300 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
IA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$243k · 42 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
22

Total granted

$243k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+20%

Still filing today

43%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionFood & NutritionHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CN
    CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +163%
  • MI
    MAN IN THE MIRROR INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +6%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    3× · 2018–2020 · $17k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • IC
    IMPACT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • C
    CARENET
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • JM
    JAMES MONROE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +118%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
A Christian Food Pantry Inc

Serve food to families and individuals in need.

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2
Financial Planning Ministry

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.

Health
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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4
Christian Cooperative Ministry Inc

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.

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5
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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6
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
7
Insight for Living

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,…

Religion
8
Marketplace Ministries Inc

To share god's love in the workplace by providing a personalized and proactive employee care service through chaplain teams.

Religion
9
Interfaith Food Bank Inc

Meet the growing demand among families for supplemental food in southern brazoria county.

Food & Nutrition
10
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
11
God's Pantry Ministry

Feed the hungry and clothe the needy

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WITTENBERG MINISTRIES: $60,000 · OtherWITTENBERG MINISTRIESCARENET: $25,000 · OtherCARENETLIGHT HOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $8,500 · OtherLIGHT HOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLWORKPLACE CHAPLAINCY FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · OtherCRU FOUNDATION: $5,300 · Other+34 more: $47,239 · Other+34 moreCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC: $48,500 · Human ServicesCARE NET PREGNANCY …WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $3,050 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD RESOURCE…IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,050 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT …+3 more: $1,600 · Human ServicesMAN IN THE MIRROR INC: $31,500 · ReligionMAN IN THE MIRR…Acts 18 Ministry Incorporated: $10,750 · ReligionActs 18 Ministr…+6 more: $2,900 · Religion+6 moreIMPACT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationIMPACT CHRI…CHARIS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $5,000 · EducationCHARIS CLAS…MCFARLAND COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,050 · EducationMCFARLAND C…+1 more: $800 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $2,200 · Youth DevelopmentOregon Area Food Pantry: $2,150 · Food & NutritionBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC: $2,150 · Food & NutritionBUCKETS FOR HUNGER INC: $2,150 · Food & NutritionGreen County Food Pantry Inc: $1,750 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,750 · Food & NutritionDEFOREST WINDSOR FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $800 · Food & NutritionJAMES MONROE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$151,539Human Services$56,200Religion$45,150Education$33,850Youth Development$19,200Food & Nutrition$11,750Arts & Culture$5,000Housing & Shelter$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 JAMES MONROE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARIS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MCFARLAND COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Area Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKETS FOR HUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds Green County Food Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds DEFOREST WINDSOR FOOD PANTRY INC ↗

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 Founda…Second Harvest Foodba…United Way of Dane Co…Trustage Foundation I…Endres Manufacturing …The Evjue Foundation …Sub-Zero Group Founda…First Business Charit…The Roots and Wings F…Madison Community Fou…Attic Angel Associati…Madison Rotary Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Salt and Light Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Salt and Light Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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