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SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,526,101 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($450,055). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$7.0M
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$9.4M
16/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocesan Council of Indianapolis Inc does

Mission

The society of st vincent de paul (archdiocesan council of indianapolis) provides support services and supplies to individuals and families in need, without discrimination. Its operations rely heavily on volunteers, and donations come from individuals, businesses, and foundations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Svdp indy's food pantry results: over 275,000 neighbors receive over 9,000,000 lbs of food each year from our food pantry locations. This food is valued at over $20,000,000. For every dollar given via charitable contributions, almost $16 worth of food can be given to a neighbor in need.

    $2,126,754 spentof which $522,703 as grants$1,838,639 earned by the program
    30% of program spending
  2. Distribution center: almost 22,000 neighbors each year receive goods and services including clothing, household items, and furniture totaling about $1,800,000 in value.

    $816,351 spentof which $308,858 as grants
    12% of program spending
  3. Love your neighbor center and homeless programs: almost $500,000 in goods and services are distributed to unsheltered individuals each year. These programs also include over 100 graduates of our changing lives forever program and more than 20 residents of our love your neighbor center, a transitional housing program with a capacity of 13 full-time residents at a time receiving counseling, job training, and life skills training in order to lift themselves out of poverty for good. The emphasis is on self-empowerment and support, focusing on the dignity of each individual.

    $370,527 spentof which $15,617 as grants
    5% of program spending
  4. The mission 27 resale shops sell donated goods and uses the proceeds to support the food pantry and other programs. Other programs include, among others, the changing lives forever initiative, which seeks to use systemic change principles to help candidates lift themselves out of poverty. This 18-week self-help program allows participants to discover how to take charge of their lives emotionally, financially, physically, and spiritually. Outcomes for the graduates are individual plans for escaping poverty and future story of what they hope to achieve three years out.

    $3,660,332 spentof which $14,357 as grants
    52% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,973,964.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2018 Revenue 112 ($3.6M) Expenses 109 ($3.1M) Net assets 110 ($5.9M)2019 Revenue 139 ($4.4M) Expenses 126 ($3.7M) Net assets 124 ($6.6M)2020 Revenue 163 ($5.2M) Expenses 141 ($4.1M) Net assets 143 ($7.6M)2021 Revenue 187 ($6.0M) Expenses 163 ($4.7M) Net assets 170 ($9.1M)2022 Revenue 213 ($6.8M) Expenses 206 ($6.0M) Net assets 183 ($9.7M)2023 Revenue 212 ($6.8M) Expenses 235 ($6.8M) Net assets 178 ($9.5M)2024 Revenue 220 ($7.0M) Expenses 251 ($7.3M) Net assets 176 ($9.4M)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (251)Net assets (176)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 2019 to 2020, from $6.6M to $7.9M (+19%).

$5.4M
$5.9M
$6.6M
$7.9M
$9.1M
$9.8M
$9.5M
$9.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$294k
’17
$417k
’18
$757k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$1.2M
’21
$832k
’22
−$42k
’23
−$241k
’24
3.9
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

Peter Zubler

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1516161616181913
Joined·+4+3+1+4+6+2+1
No longer listed·3314417
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $153k → $263k.

15 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

98% 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 SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC.

18%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 28% · 2019 46% · 2020 35% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 25% — 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

67% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

59% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IL
NY
IN
CA
MO
KY
DE
NC
AL

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

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’20
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’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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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 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC?
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,526,101 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($450,055). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,526,101 in grants to SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $450,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 35 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