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SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,082,943 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,121,492). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocesan Council of St Louis does
Mission
Inspired by gospel values, the society of st. Vincent de paul (svdp), is an international catholic lay organization with a purpose of helping people grow spiritually by forming friendships and seeking and helping those in need, regardless of race, religion, gender or other factors. Our 2,801 volunteer vincentian members work through 112 parishes to meet with their neighbors in need through home visits, where they learn more about the needs and can begin to develop friendships and create systemic change. Svdp also collaborates with other organizations to help address systematic issues and break the cycle.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Thrift stores - the st. Louis council operates eight thrift stores in st. Louis city, st. Louis county and st. Charles. The stores provide several services to the council office, our volunteer vincentian members and our neighbors in need. In addition to accepting drop-off donations of gently used goods, our stores are also some of the few in the area that pick up goods from donors around the area. The stores then sell those items, as well as some new items, to the public in geographical areas that benefit from donations but can also serve our neighbors in need. In addition to helping fund the st. Louis council office, the stores provided approximately 181 jobs, some to our neighbors in need. They also work collaboratively with our parish-based conferences in providing goods to families in need, including clothing, furniture, housewares and mattresses. They also directly helped people with $341,348.31 worth of goods that were given through the voucher program.
$2,964,522 spentof which $341,348 as grants$9,112,287 earned by the program14% of program spendingEmergency assistance - our neighborhood-based, volunteer-run conferences provide assistance to people facing hunger, eviction, domestic violence, health related crisis, threat of disconnection of utilities and other emergency needs through the work of over 2,800 volunteer members in 112 st. Vincent de paul conferences and the council office, approximately $10,916,360 in assistance was provided to approximately 242,317 neighbors in need in fy2025. In addition to assistance provided by the local conferences, the st. Louis council's professional staff provides services that are beyond the scope and capacity of the conferences. These services include a car donation program that provides the neighbors in need with car repairs or operational vehicles, a utility program that helps people avoid disconnection, a pharmacy program that provides free medication, and a bed program that supplies beds and bedding to provide clients with a clean, safe and dignified place to sleep.due to a large tornado, housing was provided as well as disaster relief services. We have provided disaster relief as general course, but it became bigger and included housing in fy2025.
$18,284,917 spentof which $10,649,258 as grants86% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,249,439.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $21M to $15M (−32%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 17 funders, grant income rose $337k → $885k.
21 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
100% 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 ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 30% · 2019 39% · 2020 33% · 2021 24% · 2022 26% · 2023 45% — broadly stable.
“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
79% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
87% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS'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 $650k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS is better cushioned than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS?
- SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,082,943 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,121,492). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% 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 ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,082,943 in grants to SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS, 25 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 ST LOUIS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,121,492 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 ST LOUIS 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.
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 37 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