Maryland · Nonprofit
LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC
LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,228 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ($537,920). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary Inc does
Mission
A charitable organization in salisbury, md, dedicated to assisting the poor with financial help for vital needs through a crisis center, food pantry, and day shelter; and, helping homeless men develop job-readiness skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The social services functions as a direct assistance program for the very poor and needy. Covered expense checks are written on behalf of clients or those seeking payment and are written directly to landlords, utilities, doctors and pharmacies.
$969,610 spent65% of program spendingThe joseph house workshop opened in 2005. It is a residential job-readiness training center that prepares homeless men for independent living. The workshop provides shelter for these men from six months to two years while they develop life skills. In the life skills development joseph house workshop residents learn budgeting and consumer education. The resident is required to put 60% of his earnings into savings, 20% towards room and board and the remaining 20% is for his personal use. The money is deposited into the joseph house workshop checking account. A liability account is established for the resident when he puts money into the account. Residents request withdrawals with a joseph house requisition form.
$247,209 spent17% of program spendingThe crisis center is set-up for those who need help immediately with, for example, fire loss, loss of employment, bills, damage, or medical necessity.
$200,564 spent13% of program spendingResident volunteers - staff members provide assistance to clients with their financial situations. They help with the homeless and the homebound
$70,136 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,487,519.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $2.0M (+39%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 10 funders, grant income rose $56k → $197k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC’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
LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% 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
84% 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 57% · 2019 66% · 2020 42% · 2021 58% · 2022 42% · 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
64% of LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
80% of LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC'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 $229k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $921k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC?
- LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,228 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ($537,920). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,150,228 in grants to LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR is the largest funder on record, with $537,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 20 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