Missouri · Nonprofit
Bishop Sullivan Center Inc
Bishop Sullivan Center Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,685 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,282,477). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Bishop Sullivan Center Inc does
Mission
Inspired by Christian faith, Bishop Sullivan Center shows God's love to people in financial hardship by providing food, help in finding jobs, and other aid. Beyond material assistance, Bishop Sulivan Center strives to build relationships between those who live in poverty and those who do not, promoting mutual understanding and affirming the dignity of all.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Household Assistance - assisted approximately 855 households with utility bills, rent, medical bills, and transportation needs.
$1,028,870 spent45% of program spendingPantry and One City Cafe - distributed food to approximately 9,721 households and served approximately 93,398 meals at a community kitchen.
$884,203 spent38% of program spendingEmployment Services - placed approximately 97 people into jobs throughout the community.
$384,012 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,297,085.
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 2025 to 2026, from $10M to $12M (+19%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Bishop Sullivan Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 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
Russell Gray
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $241k → $101k.
12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 Bishop Sullivan Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 28 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
Bishop Sullivan Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 Bishop Sullivan Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 67% · 2019 71% · 2020 21% · 2021 68% · 2022 38% · 2023 35% — 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
42% of Bishop Sullivan Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of Bishop Sullivan Center Inc'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 $431k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
Bishop Sullivan Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 125 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 125 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like Bishop Sullivan Center 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bishop Sullivan Center Inc: 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 Bishop Sullivan Center Inc?
- Bishop Sullivan Center Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,685 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,282,477). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bishop Sullivan Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,217,685 in grants to Bishop Sullivan Center Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bishop Sullivan Center Inc?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,282,477 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bishop Sullivan Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing