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SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,936 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($260,260). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $694k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Society of St Vincent de Paul Central Council of Pittsburgh does
Mission
Inspired by gospel values, the society of st. Vincent de paul, a catholic lay organization, leads women/men to join together to grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to the needy and suffering. Organized locally, vincentians witness god's love by embracing all works of charity and justice and collaborate with other people of good will in relieving need and addressing its causes making no distinction in those served.the organization offers tangible assistance to those in need on a person to person basis. It is this personalized involvement that makes the work of the society unique. This aid may take the form of intervention, consultation, or often through direct dollar or in-kind service. An essential precept of the organization's work is to provide help while conscientiously maintaining the confidentiality and dignity of those who are served. No work of charity is foreign to the organization. To quote our patron, st. Vincent de paul: "charity is infinitely inventive."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The society of saint vincent de paul serves over 50,000 people in need throughout the geographic boundaries of the diocese of pittsburgh (which includes allegheny, beaver, butler, greene, lawrence, and washington counties); providing basic needs assistance in the form of food, clothing, furniture, household goods, utility (gas, electric, and water), rental assistance (first month's rent and security deposit), and indigent burial. Several food pantries throughout the service area also distribute food and consumable goods to eligible local residents.
$7,719,021 spentof which $2,995,695 as grants$20,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,719,021.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.0M to $5.4M (+8%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Ricardo Luckow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $63k → $81k.
12 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 18 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 CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 58% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 34% · 2023 46% — 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
43% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
78% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH'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 $154k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH?
- SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,936 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($260,260). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% 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 CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $693,936 in grants to SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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