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Saint Francis Ministries Group Return

Providing healing and hope to children and families.

$40M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$3.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$112,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,880,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$43M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Saint Francis Ministries Group Return funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Human ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$3.4M43%
FY202312$1.5M50%
FY202210$1.6M100%
FY20191$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$3.6MHousing & Shelter$2.9MReligion$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NV
OH
PA
CA
AZ
KS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Francis Ministries Inc$2,880,000115%
Saint Francis Community Services Inc$671,6851n/a
VisionQuest$512,9212n/a
National Youth Advocate Program Inc$400,00010%
Fostering Life Youth Ranch LLC$355,3332n/a
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc$298,78911%
Rite of Passage Inc$233,3331n/a
Arrow Child & Family Ministries$202,0172n/a
A Better Choice Abc LLC$175,4881n/a
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies$172,44033%
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All grantees of Saint Francis Ministries Group Return by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Francis Ministries Inc$2,880,000115%
Saint Francis Community Services Inc$671,6851n/a
VisionQuest$512,9212n/a
National Youth Advocate Program Inc$400,00010%
Fostering Life Youth Ranch LLC$355,3332n/a
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc$298,78911%
Rite of Passage Inc$233,3331n/a
Arrow Child & Family Ministries$202,0172n/a
A Better Choice Abc LLC$175,4881n/a
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies$172,44033%
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch$150,10933%
Presbyterian Home for Children$112,50013%
Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle$110,82522%
Tfi Family Services Inc$65,00010%
The Bair Foundation of Texas$47,00010%
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc$36,32020%
High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc$24,00020%
Depelchin Children's Center$6,00010%
Optimism Online LLC$6,0001n/a
Living Church Foundation Inc$5,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saint Francis Ministries Group Return supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint Francis Ministries Inc: $2,880,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNational Youth Advocate Program Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuckner Children & Family Services Inc: $298,789 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTexas Center for Child and Family Studies: $172,440 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTexas Girls and Boys Ranch: $150,109 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPresbyterian Home for Children: $112,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle: $110,825 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTfi Family Services Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bair Foundation of Texas: $47,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc: $36,320 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHigh Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDepelchin Children's Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Church Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Ach Child and Family ServicesTX19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ach Child and Family Services · Texas Center for Child and Family Studies · Community Foundation of West Texas · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Saint Francis Ministries Group Return

How much does Saint Francis Ministries Group Return give?
Saint Francis Ministries Group Return reported 7 itemized grants totaling $3,425,766, out of $39,740,066 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Saint Francis Ministries Group Return fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Housing & Shelter (45%), Religion (0%).
Who are Saint Francis Ministries Group Return's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Saint Francis Ministries Inc ($2.9M), Saint Francis Community Services Inc ($672k), VisionQuest ($513k).
Does Saint Francis Ministries Group Return fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Saint Francis Ministries Group Return?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ach Child and Family Services, Texas Center for Child and Family Studies, Community Foundation of West Texas.
Where is Saint Francis Ministries Group Return based?
Saint Francis Ministries Group Return is based in KS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $37M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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