Minnesota · Nonprofit
CSJ Ministries Foundation
CSJ Ministries Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,180 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ($138,539). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $785k
- Net assets
- $0
What CSJ Ministries Foundation does
Mission
Organization serves as a supporting organization to Accola, to receive planned estate gifts named to the foundation for the purpose of the supported organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Sisters of st joseph ministries foundation transferred missionary activity to a newly created entity, csj ministries.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The partners in ministry grants were awared to ministries in which the sisters of st. Joseph serve. Ministries receiving grants were: st. Mary's health clinics which provides health care service to low income, uninsured individuals and families in the st. Paul/minneapolis metropolitan area; sarah's. . . An oasis for women which is a home dedicated to the safety and dignity for a diverse community of women, most of who are immigrants, where they are empowered to begin new and productive lives; learning in style, which is an english language school for immigrants that focuses on building literacy and citizenship skills in a supportive affordable and respectful; continued on sch o.and the st. Joseph worker program, which provides a year-long commitment to social change, individual growth and development, is built on the values of leadership, spirituality, social justice and intentional community rooted in living simply and sustainaibly. These grants help meet the healthcare, education, human service and spiritual needs of people in the twin cities and other communities in which the sisters of st. Joseph work. The campaign grants were awarded to ministries in which the sisters of st.…
$20,106,797 spentof which $20,106,797 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,106,797.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $21M to $0 (−100%).
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.
0% of CSJ Ministries Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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
Ralph Scorpio
Executive director
Board chair
Kristine Smith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $48k → $192k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $368k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Allina Health System). These are real filings, and they are not money CSJ Ministries Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of CSJ Ministries Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
CSJ Ministries Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 CSJ Ministries Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 42% · 2019 56% · 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 29% · 2023 52% — 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
47% of CSJ Ministries Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
64% of CSJ Ministries Foundation'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 $284k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $501k 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
CSJ Ministries Foundation's revenue fell 100% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CSJ Ministries Foundation
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CSJ Ministries Foundation: 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 CSJ Ministries Foundation?
- CSJ Ministries Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,180 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ($138,539). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CSJ Ministries Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $785,180 in grants to CSJ Ministries Foundation, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CSJ Ministries Foundation?
- CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $138,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CSJ Ministries Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 24 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