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FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA
FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,639 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($360,950). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $913k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $869k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Friends of Sarnelli House Ua does
Mission
Raise funds for Sarnelli House Hospice & Orphanage. This public charity was established to ensure low cost funding for the Redemptorist Fathers (A Roman Catholic Order of Priest and Brothers- Denver Province) Mission work. Specifically, in the past they have relied on direct contributions. The founders are friends, relatives and neighbors of Father Michael Shea, a Redemptorist priest who has been doing mission work for over 50 years. This group wants to ensure that his work receives funding in the most cost effective manner. The members and trustees of this group receive no salary or fees of any kind whatsoever for their work. All funds collected will be distributed to support the charitable work of the Redemptorist Fathers, specifically Sarnelli House.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Outreach Program is a program to visit HIV/AIDS patients in their homes. Fr. Mike Shea started this outreach work with three novitiates from the Redemptorists Novitiate in Nongkhai as his staff and visited the first adult AIDS patient group in Don Wai. Fr Mike Shea and three novices at the beginning working for HIV/AIDS people The Outreach Program covers 5 provinces of the Northeast Thailand and sees approximately 70 families. It provides for the primary needs of families affected by HIV/AIDS by supplying medicines, food and money for educating the children. As well as the home visits, the Outreach Program has visits prisoners in jail, who do not have any relatives to visit them. Once a month the Outreach Team has an activities day in Don Wai where the families and children are picked up and driven to Don Wai for lunch, writing letters to their sponsors and general support. The orphanage is recognized in the community as a place of safe refuge. Many of the in-person Outreach programs were modified to accommodate the COVID outbreak. Some of these modifications continued through 2024
$38,400 spent5% of program spendingCharlene House Charlene House is a 6 room facility for housing visiting volunteers. It has 2 beds per room and shared bathrooms. One room is wheelchair accessible. Funds raised by Friends of Sarnelli House have been earmarked to provide a place for volunteers to reside. There are not suitable housing alternatives for volunteers who come to donate their time for projects such as painting buildings. More broadly, in 2024 Sarnelli House began undertaking large maintenance construction project to repair and future-proof some of the children's houses. The boys at St. Patrick's had to move out for six weeks as the roof there needed to be replaced and they recently returned to new bathrooms and freshly painted walls, inside and out. The Sarnelli House boys also got new bathrooms and a paint job and House of Hope had a roof and ceiling replaced. The babies' dorm received new air conditioners and sealed doors and windows for the hot season, and there are now air purifiers in place to counter the hazardous seasonal pollution. Kitchens were remodeled. Some of this work will continue into 2025 and 2026.
$144,600 spent20% of program spendingPurchase food and goods for the Sarnelli Orphanage. Tuition for the children in school is also part of this Program. This year saw an increase in the need for food, supplies and drugs due to the complications from COVID quarantine. The cost of food increased and this caused increase expenses.
$89,600 spent12% of program spendingFOSH provides financial support to pay for the salary of staff, Also covered under this grant is transportation cost for the children to go the hospital, as well as to school. Whilst the orphanage grows and sources much of their own food, there are costs associated with food, cooking gas which FOSH supports. Also included is cost for visiting nurse and physical therapist
$447,000 spent62% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $719,600.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.0M to $5.5M (+10%).
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.
79% of FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA’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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $45k → $90k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA’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
FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 53% · 2019 53% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — 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
63% of FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
78% of FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA'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 $194k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA?
- FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,639 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($360,950). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $868,639 in grants to FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $360,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 15 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