Light & Salt Association

Analysis

Light & Salt Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Light & Salt Association reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.4m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.6m (+45%), an average of +9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Light & Salt Association sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Evangeline Council on the Aging Inc ($1.6m), Young Mens Christian Association of Putnam County Ohio ($1.6m) and Vizavance Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $429k. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $764k, net assets of $2.3m. It reported 19 employees.