Delaware · Nonprofit
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC (Delaware) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,034,925 to it, the largest being LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-CINCINNATI ($500,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocal
- Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodesportfolio match
- Leadingage Incportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 17% · 2021 14% · 2022 16% · 2023 0% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $204k → $769k.
12 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
42% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 41% · 2019 24% · 2020 30% · 2021 16% · 2022 35% · 2023 65% — 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
46% of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
52% of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $741k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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 48 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 66 organizations near you
- Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leadingage Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Care Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank J Lewis Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George H Campbell Lillian S Campbell Andportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association of the United States of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ehret Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catholic United Financial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bahmann Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chichester Dupont Foundation Incshared funderslocalDE · backs 91 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
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.
Government funding LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$950k
- GRANTS$543k
- ENERGY SAVINGS PROGRAM$8k
- MEDICAL SUPPLIES$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 3 related entities
- Little Sisters of the Poor Baltimore Province Inc · exempt
- Little Sisters of the Poor Service Corporation · exempt
- Little Sisters of the Poor in Richmond · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC: 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 INC?
- LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC (Delaware) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,034,925 to it, the largest being LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-CINCINNATI ($500,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,034,925 in grants to LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC?
- LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR-CINCINNATI is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 48funders 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