Missouri · Nonprofit
Little Sisters of The Poor
Little Sisters of The Poor (Missouri) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,888,981 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,149,577). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Little Sisters of The Poor does
Mission
Little Sisters of The Poor operates the jeanne jugan center, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy, elderly and poor. The home is part of the international congregation of Little Sisters of The Poor, which was founded in france in 1839, and serves the elderly in 30 countries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Business operations continue to stabilize somewhat to a pre-covid standard during 2023 in that lsop's nursing care was not disrupted by covid testing of residents & staff, nor were there as many provisions and processes required to maintain a covid-free environment. Retaining nursing care staff continues to be a huge challenge as well as a financial drain. Operation of residential nursing care (first floor) ceased in april 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Skilled, intermediate, and residential nursing care for 18,493 patient days for welfare agency and private residents. A. Physical care - Little Sisters of The Poor provide licensed nursing care, medical, dental and podiatry care, physical therapy and pharmaceutical services. The challenges of aging are myriad and managing the physical needs of the elderly is a monumental task. As little sisters, we are committed to promoting the dignity of human life of each and every one of our residents. Medical doctors visit the home several times a week. Dental and podiatry care, as well as physical therapy, are provided within the home. In a spirit of humble service and hospitality, the little sisters provide nursing care to the residents with utmost respect for the dignity of the individual person. The sisters, through a prayerful, bedside presence, provide spiritual care to dying residents. B. Spiritual care - little sisters accept elderly people into their home without regard to religion or race. Having a faith that sustains and comforts in hard times is a particular blessing as we move toward the end of life. When elderly people are offered the benefits of a spiritual program, their lives…
$6,580,272 spent$3,876,731 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,580,272.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $8.7M (−18%).
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 11% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of Little Sisters of The Poor’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 19 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $183k → $307k.
11 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 The Poor’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
Little Sisters of The Poor has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% 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 The Poor.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 76% · 2019 51% · 2020 26% · 2021 36% · 2022 26% · 2023 18% — 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
37% of Little Sisters of The Poor's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
Little Sisters of The Poor draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Little Sisters of The Poor is better cushioned than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Little Sisters of The Poor
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
- Little Sisters Chicago Province · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor?
- Little Sisters of The Poor (Missouri) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,888,981 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,149,577). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Little Sisters of The Poor have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,888,981 in grants to Little Sisters of The Poor, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Little Sisters of The Poor?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,149,577 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Little Sisters of The Poor find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing