California · Nonprofit
Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra
Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,230 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($750,250). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra does
Mission
With love, respect and compassion, the Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra provide essential services and transitional support to people experiencing the injustice of homelessness and extreme poverty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dorothy's Drop-In CenterThe mission of Franciscan Workers and the goal of Dorothy's Place programs is to provide basic needs, essential services and transitional support that move people that are chronically homeless into housing. We serve clients that have multiple barriers and disabilities. Commonly, 90% of our clients require mental health or addiction intervention. We continue to focus on basic needs, safe shelter, transitional programming and data gathering and research that not only creates an evidence base that informs our services, but also stimulates community discussion on the greatest challenge of assisting chronically homeless people into housing, that of meeting unaddressed health needs. We provide healthcare coordination through CalAIAM where homeless, marginalized, and others who are our clients can meet basic hygiene needs (shower & laundry), be treated at our weekly health clinic, and access other services that are geared towards helping them live with greater health and dignity (mail, phone clothing, activities, and volunteering). We serve unsheltered adults, with and without families with basic needs, and our community health workers assist with the social…
$751,206 spentof which $47,241 as grants21% of program spendingDorothy's KitchenWe serve smiles, gentle conversation, hugs, and an atmosphere of family. Dorothy's Kitchen open at 8:30 every morning for a hot breakfast for our guests, serving approximately 300 people each day. The Kitchen also serves a hot lunch every day of the week a 1:00. Upwards of 400 free meals are served daily. On special occasions, such as Thanksgiving, we exceed that number and will serve nearly 1,000 meals. Emergency food boxes are distributed between 10:00-11:00 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. There is no charge, obligation (other than good behavior), or discrimination. We don't ask names or request IDs. Those who come are our guests, and are treated with hospitality, like family.
$1,075,170 spentof which $616,127 as grants31% of program spendingHouse of Peace Supportive HousingHouse of Peace (HOP) is a residential program for individuals who have experienced the trauma of long-term homelessness. The program has two shared living locations, 12 rooms at Soledad Street and 14 rooms at Jefferson Street. Bachelor's level social workers and housing navigators provide case management that includes CalAIM Medi-Cal enhanced care management and housing support benefits that are reimbursed by Central California Alliance for Health. As of November 2023, HOP also receives ongoing HUD funding for its permanent supportive housing program. HOP is a low-barrier housing program, accepting participants regardless of income, immigration, or sobriety status. Residents of HOP represent the most vulnerable unsheltered people in our area. All residents have complex needs and live with a combination of physical disability, mental illness, history of abuse, and substance addiction disorder.
$527,333 spentof which $11,763 as grants$44,791 earned by the program15% of program spending4. St. Clare's Corner is an extension pantry of the Food Bank for Monterey County, offering supplemental food for more than 260 farm worker families year around.5. Streets to Homes provides social case management, healthcare coordination and housing navigation to chronically unsheltered adults, primarily in Salinas, but in other communities in Monterey County as needed. The program has ten social workers and two housing navigators that work with approximately 180 individuals in developing person-centric plans to advance into housing and better health. Additionally, Streets To Homes conducts comprehensive encampment outreach, delivering social services and medical aid directly to individuals at encampment sites who may feel uncomfortable accessing Dorothy's Place or leaving their belongings unattended for appointments. The Streets To Homes Multidisciplinary Encampment Outreach (STHEO) team is composed of two community health workers, two social worker/housing navigators, and volunteer doctors and nurses, comprising the sole encampment outreach team in Monterey County with medical expertise. Our Housing First approach is trauma-informed and acknowledges the dignity, unique needs,…
$1,168,513 spentof which $18,127 as grants33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,522,222.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+30%).
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 41% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 10% · 2023 44% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Jill Allen
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $210k → $885k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Workers of Junipero Serra’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 Workers of Junipero Serra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 Workers of Junipero Serra.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 47% · 2021 92% · 2022 41% · 2023 40% — 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
33% of Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
98% of Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k 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
Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.1M
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 Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wheel of Hope · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra: 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 Workers of Junipero Serra?
- Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,230 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($750,250). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,854,230 in grants to Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra?
- MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 21 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