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POPE FRANCIS CENTER

POPE FRANCIS CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $103,333 to it, the largest being THE MARY KAY AND JAMES D FARLEY FUND ($103,333). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$61k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$103k
Net assets
$5k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Pope Francis Center does

Mission

Assisting poor and homeless with accessing public benefits job readiness counseling job referrals and housing referrals mail drop and Pope Francis Center Ids

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. 117 clients were assisted to get either the Pope Francis Center ID or another form of identification

    $0 spent
  2. 129 clients were given toiletries and clothing mostly warm winter gear

    $0 spent
  3. clients without secure mailboxes were assisted with receiving mail at the Pope Francis Center 410 times

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2021 Revenue 105 ($71k) Expenses 93 ($67k) Net assets 347 ($6k)2022 Revenue 83 ($56k) Expenses 79 ($57k) Net assets 272 ($4k)2023 Revenue 93 ($63k) Expenses 86 ($63k) Net assets 280 ($4k)2024 Revenue 108 ($73k) Expenses 101 ($73k) Net assets 264 ($4k)2025 Revenue 91 ($61k) Expenses 83 ($60k) Net assets 326 ($5k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (91)Expenses (83)Net assets (326)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2k to $6k (+247%).

$2k
$6k
$4k
$4k
$4k
$5k
202020212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of POPE FRANCIS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’20
$4k
’21
−$1k
’22
$128
’23
−$257
’24
$988
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Ann McCormick

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of POPE FRANCIS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

100% of POPE FRANCIS CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

POPE FRANCIS CENTER has grown faster than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like POPE FRANCIS CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POPE FRANCIS CENTER: 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 POPE FRANCIS CENTER?
POPE FRANCIS CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $103,333 to it, the largest being THE MARY KAY AND JAMES D FARLEY FUND ($103,333). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POPE FRANCIS CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $103,333 in grants to POPE FRANCIS CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POPE FRANCIS CENTER?
THE MARY KAY AND JAMES D FARLEY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $103,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POPE FRANCIS CENTER 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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