New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY
THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,543 to it, the largest being HOMEFRONT INC ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What The Salt and Light Company does
Mission
To assist ower income individuals and families in securing decent affordable housing , providing shelter and other services to the homeless and other counseling and training.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To assist lower income individuals and families in securing decent affordable housing, providing shelter and other services to the homeless, and other counseling and training.
$3,916,158 spent$2,953,129 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,916,158.
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.
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 $12M to $15M (+28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 18% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Mark Jorgensen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $30k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
96% 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 THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY.
“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
96% of THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 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
THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- GRANT IN AID$1.4M
- FEDERAL$98k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Transitional Housing Services Inc · exempt
- Homes of Hope Inc · exempt
- Alternative Living for Later Years Inc · exempt
- Affordable Homes Group Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY: 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 THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY?
- THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,543 to it, the largest being HOMEFRONT INC ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,543 in grants to THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY?
- HOMEFRONT INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SALT AND LIGHT COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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