Kentucky · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC
FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,260 to it, the largest being Dr Donald N & Jane L Berning Private Foundation ($355,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $534k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $747k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Friends of the Rose Garden Mission Inc does
Mission
To share the love of jesus while providing a haven of hope and free non-judgemental assistance by supporting the work of the franciscan daughters of mary. The friends assist the franciscan daughters of mary by raising funds for them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The friends assists the franciscan daughters of mary by raising funds for the general operations of the mission and its services, including the operation and maintenance of the properties that house the rose garden and center for hope and healing, and the house of formation.
$231,650 spent90% of program spendingThe friends paid for turkeys and christmas toys, providing the mission with items for their thanksgiving and christmas give-aways for needy families.
$26,903 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $258,553.
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 $1.4M to $2.0M (+38%).
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC’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. 3 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
Mother Clare Marie
CEO
Board chair
Greg Ionna
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $95k → $69k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 53% · 2019 95% · 2020 48% · 2021 42% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — 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
56% of FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $263k 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
FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,260 to it, the largest being Dr Donald N & Jane L Berning Private Foundation ($355,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $747,260 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC?
- Dr Donald N & Jane L Berning Private Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $355,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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