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SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC

SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,090 to it, the largest being GEORGE FOUNDATION INC ($145,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$324k
Net assets
$15M
9/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Salt Block Foundation Inc does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided facilities for use by various nonprofit agencies providing programs in the natural sciences, history, visual and performing arts and cultural programs at a very minimal cost to the nonprofitsone of the agencies provides educational opportunities for the public and school aged children. Teachers bring the students to our facilities to allow for hands on learning.

    $791,657 spent$625,832 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $791,657.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($912k) Expenses 100 ($897k) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 100 ($916k) Expenses 97 ($867k) Net assets 103 ($12M)2019 Revenue 85 ($778k) Expenses 108 ($969k) Net assets 103 ($12M)2020 Revenue 83 ($760k) Expenses 98 ($881k) Net assets 99 ($12M)2021 Revenue 84 ($763k) Expenses 107 ($959k) Net assets 120 ($14M)2022 Revenue 104 ($952k) Expenses 114 ($1.0M) Net assets 105 ($12M)2023 Revenue 97 ($889k) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 108 ($13M)2024 Revenue 93 ($849k) Expenses 116 ($1.0M) Net assets 116 ($14M)2025 Revenue 239 ($2.2M) Expenses 115 ($1.0M) Net assets 131 ($15M)
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Revenue (239)Expenses (115)Net assets (131)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $14M (+20%).

$12M
$12M
$12M
$12M
$14M
$12M
$13M
$14M
$16M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 20% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$49k
’18
−$191k
’19
−$121k
’20
−$196k
’21
−$72k
’22
−$274k
’23
−$187k
’24
$1.1M
’25
0.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Erin Hooks

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed232323232323222423
Joined·+1+4+5+5+4+3+5+5
No longer listed·14554436
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $53k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $23k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 51% · 2022 58% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

71% of SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin53% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 19%Fundraising 4%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

47%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC?
SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,090 to it, the largest being GEORGE FOUNDATION INC ($145,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $324,090 in grants to SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC?
GEORGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing