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CARLISLE CARES

CARLISLE CARES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,786 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY ($700,040). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$1.9M
11/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Carlisle Cares does

Mission

Serving and strengthening the community by providing emergency shelter, resources, and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in cumberland county, pennsylvania

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The emergency shelter provides shelter, case management and resources to single adults experiencing homelessness in cumberland county, pa. Case management and resources were made available to help secure employment, and meet basic daily essential needs such as a kitchen, shower, laundry, mail, locker, wellness room and point of contact are provided. During 2024, provided 11,960 showers and 6,597 loads of laundry. Case managers work with clients to establish housing plans and goals for overcoming unique barriers to homelessness. They provide referrals and help with applications for housing, employment, disability, etc.

    $861,911 spent
    57% of program spending
  2. The family shelter provides shelter, case management, and resources to families with children experiencing homelessness in cumberland county, pa. Case management and resources were made available to help secure employment and meet basic daily needs. Essential needs such as a shower, laundry, mail, computers, kitchen, and point of contact were provided. During 2024, services were provided to 244 individuals. Case managers work with clients to establish housing plans and goals for overcoming unique barriers to homelessness. They provide referrals and help with applications for housing, employment, disability, etc.

    $434,960 spent
    29% of program spending
  3. Cumberland street reach (street outreach) is a mobile outreach program designed to engage, assess, and combat homelessness for households who are at risk of losing their home and those living on the streets, in encampments, and in locations not intended for human habitation throughout cumberland county, pa. During 2024, enrolled 310 individuals in the street outreach program.

    $126,563 spent
    8% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $91,052 spent$749 earned by the program
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,514,486.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($503k) Expenses 100 ($450k) Net assets 100 ($402k)2018 Revenue 120 ($602k) Expenses 127 ($574k) Net assets 109 ($436k)2019 Revenue 128 ($642k) Expenses 124 ($558k) Net assets 130 ($520k)2020 Revenue 228 ($1.1M) Expenses 170 ($764k) Net assets 225 ($902k)2021 Revenue 241 ($1.2M) Expenses 221 ($994k) Net assets 278 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 322 ($1.6M) Expenses 248 ($1.1M) Net assets 403 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 291 ($1.5M) Expenses 290 ($1.3M) Net assets 442 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 362 ($1.8M) Expenses 384 ($1.7M) Net assets 463 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (362)Expenses (384)Net assets (463)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.4M (+105%).

$454k
$482k
$546k
$936k
$1.2M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 13% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 20% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of CARLISLE CARES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’17
$28k
’18
$85k
’19
$382k
’20
$215k
’21
$501k
’22
$155k
’23
$88k
’24
6.9
months of
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.

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Listed10101099101010
Joined·+1+2+2+0+2+2+2
No longer listed·1230122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $83k → $267k.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CARLISLE CARES’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

CARLISLE CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 CARLISLE CARES.

35%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 92% · 2019 64% · 2020 55% · 2021 36% · 2022 46% · 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

56% of CARLISLE CARES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

97% of CARLISLE CARES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

WI
PA
CT
MO
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CARLISLE CARES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve6.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CARLISLE CARES

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARLISLE CARES: 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 CARLISLE CARES?
CARLISLE CARES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,786 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY ($700,040). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARLISLE CARES have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,011,786 in grants to CARLISLE CARES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARLISLE CARES?
UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $700,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARLISLE CARES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 23 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