Illinois · Nonprofit
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME (Illinois) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,182,873 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($515,400). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $-109118
What Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago St Mary's Home does
Mission
The little sisters of the poor operate st. Mary's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. The home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in 1839 and serves the elderly in 32 countries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Intermediate, skilled and sheltered care services for a 57 bed facility.
$8,159,878 spent$4,175,956 earned by the program96% of program spendingIndependent living services - 50 apartment facility.
$382,381 spent$259,331 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,542,259.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $7.0M to $5.2M (−25%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $78k → $247k.
12 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME 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
76% 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 CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 47% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 26% · 2022 44% · 2023 27% — broadly stable.
“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 CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
74% of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME'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 $561k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.
Organizations like LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME?
- LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME (Illinois) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,182,873 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($515,400). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,182,873 in grants to LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $515,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 46 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