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PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM

PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,830,872 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($765,791). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.9M
Funders on record
86
Grants received
$4.8M
Net assets
$10M
57/86 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem does

Mission

The mission of the priory in the united states of america of the most venerable order of the hospital of st john of jerusalem (the priory) is to support the sick and the poor in fellowship as part of the order of st john, an international family of charities whose mission is to lead globally in first aid and medical responses to community healthcare needs, regardless of race, gender, class, or religion. The priory supports the st john of jerusalem eye hospital group and, through its volunteer corps, the social and healthcare needs in local communities across the united states.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. St john of jerusalem eye hospital group (sjehg) is headquartered in east jerusalem, with facilities in the west bank and gaza. It is the only charitable ophthalmic hospital in the region. It is also a teaching hospital to train doctors and nurses in much needed ophthalmic specialties. The priory in the usa of the most venerable order of the hospital of st john of jerusalem (the priory) members have vowed to prevent and treat sickness and suffering by raising significant funds for sjehg. Their fundraising efforts are ongoing.

    $3,424,108 spentof which $3,200,931 as grants$1,042,731 earned by the program
    78% of program spending
  2. Other programs, including support of the mission of the worldwide order of st john, the preservation of the order's history, and the st john volunteer corps in the united states.

    $963,859 spentof which $150,503 as grants
    22% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,387,967.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 99 ($3.3M) Expenses 88 ($2.9M) Net assets 124 ($4.2M)2021 Revenue 123 ($4.1M) Expenses 104 ($3.5M) Net assets 162 ($5.5M)2022 Revenue 156 ($5.3M) Expenses 133 ($4.4M) Net assets 158 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 173 ($5.8M) Expenses 146 ($4.9M) Net assets 212 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 181 ($6.1M) Expenses 167 ($5.6M) Net assets 259 ($8.8M)2025 Revenue 146 ($4.9M) Expenses 150 ($5.0M) Net assets 295 ($10M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (146)Expenses (150)Net assets (295)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $8.2M to $11M (+29%).

$3.6M
$4.4M
$5.7M
$6.3M
$8.2M
$11M
$12M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 6% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’19
$380k
’20
$679k
’21
$844k
’22
$968k
’23
$547k
’24
−$95k
’25
2.6
months of
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.

Chief executive

Michele Blair

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed36443433353732
Joined·+26+4+4+8+10+9
No longer listed·181456814
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $160k → $953k.

19 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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

PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM 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

51% 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 PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

16%
largest funder
35%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 25% · 2019 23% · 2020 35% · 2021 15% · 2022 18% · 2023 27% — 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

60% of PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

51% of PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states.

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NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
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VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM's revenue grew 46% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 8%Fundraising 5%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM?
PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,830,872 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($765,791). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM have?
IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $4,830,872 in grants to PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $765,791 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 86 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