Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,687,124 to it, the largest being Wolstenholme Charitable Foundation ($1,240,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Massey Charitable Trustshared funders
- Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundationportfolio match
- Sovereign Military Order of Malta Western Association-Usaportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $267k → $691k.
1 of 122 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 122 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 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% 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
87% of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 122 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Massey Charitable Trustshared fundersPA · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sovereign Military Order of Malta Western Association-Usaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard & Nell E Miller Foundatshared fundersPA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- The Benter Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Nashared fundersPA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Allegheny Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- The Grable Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 110 organizations that share your funders
- The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvaniashared fundersPA · backs 147 organizations that share your funders
- Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Trshared fundersPA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- The Buhl Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 181 organizations near you
- Posner Foundation of Pittsburghshared fundersPA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR?
- LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,687,124 to it, the largest being Wolstenholme Charitable Foundation ($1,240,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR have?
- IRS filings report 122 organizations giving $4,687,124 in grants to LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR?
- Wolstenholme Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,240,000 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 Pennsylvania. 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 122funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing