Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA
FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,444 to it, the largest being ALLEGANY FRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC ($52,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $397k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $403k
What Franciscan Mission Service of North America does
Mission
As Franciscan followers of Christ we build partnerships with Catholic women and men who are inspired to live and serve in solidarity with economically poor communities across the globe and to bring the transformative experience of mission to North American societies and churches as advocates for peace justice reconciliation and care of creation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Lay Missioner Program provides Catholic lay women and men the opportunity to serve for a minimum of two years with poor and oppressed communities around the world. We train commission and support missioners in the Franciscan charism to serve others in a way that is respectful and honoring of cultural religious and personal differences.
$280,130 spent62% of program spendingDC Service Corps provides young adults with the opportunity to engage in direct service with marginalized populations in Washington DC or in service to Franciscan Mission Services FMS overall mission through work at the FMS headquarters. The program emphasizes service simple living community and spirituality in the Franciscan charism.
$122,520 spent27% of program spendingFormation and Mission Trip Programs
$0 spent0% of program spendingFormation and Mission Trip Programs
$50,588 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $453,238.
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 2024 to 2025, from $582k to $404k (−31%).
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 0% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Margaret Conley
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Hans Dethlefs
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA’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
FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 54% · 2022 31% · 2023 99% — 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
33% of FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA's revenue fell 20% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA: 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 FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA?
- FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,444 to it, the largest being ALLEGANY FRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC ($52,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $112,444 in grants to FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA?
- ALLEGANY FRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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