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LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,114,221 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ($20,118,513). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia does
Mission
The little sisters of the poor of philadelphia operate holy family home, a mission-driven long-term care community providing nursing, residential, spiritual, and compassionate care services for economically vulnerable elderly individuals of all faith traditions in a family-centered environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in philadelphia in 1869, the little sisters of the poor operate holy family home, a catholic long-term care community, providing nursing, residential, spiritual, and compassionate care services for low-income elderly individuals of all backgrounds and faith traditions. The home serves economically vulnerable older adults through an aging-in-place approach that enables each resident to remain in a familiar setting while receiving increasing levels of support as needed. The little sisters provide person-centered care focused on dignity, meaningful quality of life, social engagement, a family-centered community setting, pastoral support, and compassionate accompaniment through the later stages of life. Recent form 990 financial fluctuations reflect the completion and occupancy transitions of holy family home's once-in-a-generation rebuilding and modernizatoin project, finalized in 2025, including significant capital expenditures construction-related activity, and associated long-term financing obligations. These figures primarily reflect the financial impact of a transformational public-private investment designed to modernize eldercare services and strengthen the…
$5,484,135 spent$2,735,303 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,484,135.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $39M (+134%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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 7 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $59k → $4.6M.
13 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 30% · 2019 15% · 2020 28% · 2021 38% · 2022 58% · 2023 65% — 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
50% of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
89% of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA'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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
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In Pennsylvania
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
97%
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 2 related entities
- Little Sisters of the Poor Brooklyn Prov · exempt
- Little Sisters of the Poor Baltimore Pro · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,114,221 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ($20,118,513). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% 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 OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $26,114,221 in grants to LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA is the largest funder on record, with $20,118,513 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA 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.
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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 55 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