Illinois · Nonprofit
SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW
SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,355 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,355). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $273
What Salt - Student Athletes Leading Tomorrow does
Mission
The purpose of SALT is to provide social, emotional, and physical development well being being of children predominately of under resourced communities thought sports based youth development programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
SALT conducted its annual Summer Soccer Camp for children in the Alton, IL community. The free soccer wellness program was attended by more than 40 children at 2 different sites in the city. SALT was one of only a select few organizations and cities in the country to participate in a national pilot program of the US Soccer Foundation's Soccer for Success In School Pilot Program. The program introduced fundamental soccer nutrition education principles to children ages 6 to 12 as part of a school district's PE Health Education curriculum. The SALT pilot program was conducted at 2 elementary schools in the Alton School District in the Spring, 2022 semester East, West Elementary Schools, with plans to continue expand the program in 2022. SALT began planning fundraising for the construction of a soccer futsal mini pitch in the Alton, IL community through the US Soccer Foundation's national court building initiative, Safe Places to Play, with a desired completion of the project for 2022. SALT established key collaborative partnerships with vital regional organization partners, including the following New Dimension Soccer, a STL based soccer based youth development nonprofit with over 18…
$19,618 spentof which $10,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,618.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $10k to $273 (−97%).
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.
100% of SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Damian Jones
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW’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 - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
52% of SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW's revenue fell 31% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW?
- SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,355 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,355). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,355 in grants to SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW.
- Who is the largest funder of SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALT - STUDENT ATHLETES LEADING TOMORROW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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