Missouri · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,863,655 to it, the largest being MISSOURI CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ($702,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri Inc does
Mission
A faith-based organization providing compassionaite, quality social services to the vulnerable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless and homelessness prevention programs-ccsomo case managers work with households who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness providing intensive case management and temporary financial assistance for rent and utilities, with the goals of achieving permanent housing, stability, and financial self-sufficiency. The program serves veterans, families, seniors, the disabled and individuals reentering the community by assisting them in addressing their barriers to stable housing. In the past year, ccsomo provided services to 763 individuals in 438 households.
$3,066,582 spent$340,490 earned by the program38% of program spendingTargeted case management is provided by ccsomo service coordinators. They provide guidance and access to resources that meet the distinct needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to help maximize their potential and strengthen their level of independence. We provided over 27,655 hours of tcm services for 1,312 individuals and their families during the fiscal year ending 6/30/25.
$2,787,298 spent34% of program spendingMaternal and family programs provide both residential and nonresidential services to pregnant women and families facing unplanned pregnancies. Lifehouse crisis maternity home provides transitional housing and on-site comprehensive services to homeless pregnant women and their young children for up to a year after delivery. Lifehouse on average serves 116 homeless women, their infants and young children a year. The aftercare programs assists women and children as they transition to permanent housing providing services that help them to achieve their long-term goal of self- sufficiency. The nonresidential program provides pregnancy and parenting support throughout southern missouri and served over 87 households in the 2025 fiscal year.
$2,270,610 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,124,490.
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 $10M to $14M (+42%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 56% · 2022 44% · 2023 50% · 2024 43% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Ken Palermo
CEO/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $80k → $1.7M.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 81% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 23% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
61% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $624k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.5M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$10.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.7M
- Department of Labor$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$59k
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,863,655 to it, the largest being MISSOURI CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ($702,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,863,655 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC?
- MISSOURI CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND is the largest funder on record, with $702,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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