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SISTERS IN CHRIST

SISTERS IN CHRIST (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,143,626 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$820k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Sisters in Christ does

Mission

To assist women in rebuilding their lives, helping to identify their purpose, and providing support in ways that promote physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness through their substance use disorder and recovery

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To assist in the transformation of people by creating and weaving together a cohesive set of resources that promote their physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual wholeness. Provide residential housing for women recently released from incarceration. Provide resources to enhance growth of young people. Provide mentoring services for young people.

    $1,421,764 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,421,764.

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 ($313k) Expenses 100 ($313k) Net assets 100 ($52k)2020 Revenue 164 ($514k) Expenses 149 ($465k) Net assets 159 ($82k)2021 Revenue 277 ($867k) Expenses 217 ($679k) Net assets 577 ($298k)2023 Revenue 334 ($1.0M) Expenses 384 ($1.2M) Net assets 698 ($361k)2024 Revenue 630 ($2.0M) Expenses 542 ($1.7M) Net assets 1242 ($642k)2025 Revenue 643 ($2.0M) Expenses 588 ($1.8M) Net assets 1587 ($820k)
201920202021202320242025
Revenue (643)Expenses (588)Net assets (1587)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 $709k to $1.4M (+102%).

$52k
$88k
$600k
$709k
$1.4M
$1.7M
201920202021202320242025
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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 82% · 2020 89% · 2021 61% · 2023 57% · 2024 34% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

48% of SISTERS IN CHRIST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$870
’19
$49k
’20
$188k
’21
−$152k
’23
$281k
’24
$178k
’25
1.1
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

Carolyn Whitney

Executive director

Board chair

Tyrone Smith

Board chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920202021202320242025
Listed565444
Joined·+3+2·+0+0
No longer listed·23·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $311k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SISTERS IN CHRIST’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.

How concentrated its funding is

SISTERS IN CHRIST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 SISTERS IN CHRIST.

44%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — 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 SISTERS IN CHRIST's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

68% of SISTERS IN CHRIST's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

PA
MO
KS
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SISTERS IN CHRIST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SISTERS IN CHRIST

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MO

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SISTERS IN CHRIST: 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 SISTERS IN CHRIST?
SISTERS IN CHRIST (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,143,626 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SISTERS IN CHRIST have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,143,626 in grants to SISTERS IN CHRIST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SISTERS IN CHRIST?
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION 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 SISTERS IN CHRIST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing