· Private foundation
Salt of the Earth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC | $150,000 |
| LINWOOD WESLEYAN CHURCH | $100,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $50,000 |
| KINGDOM WORKERS FOSTER SUPPORT PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| AMAZING DISCOVERIES | $20,000 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN-ST PAUL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Salt of the Earth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWorld Hope International Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $950k · revenue +32%
- CSCHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +4%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- ABAVERA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TBTHE BEACONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- LLIFELIGHTone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Hope media group's (hmg) mission is engaging people to love jesus, serve others, and spread hope.
Abhe is the quality and credibility resource partner that connects efforts among christian postsecondary educational institutions and with others invested in serious bible learning that shapes a life of godly influence and service to the…
Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 World Hope International Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds Amazing Discoveries ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS CENTER ↗
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: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Salt of the Earth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Salt of the Earth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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