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SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,897,944 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ($324,912). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$20M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$16M
21/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Society of St Vincent de Paul in the Archdiocese of Detroit does

Mission

The mission of the society of st. Vincent de paul detroit is to build a network of friends inspired by gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and in service to people in need. This is accomplished through outreach programs that include emergency services, food, clothing, utility and rent assistance, disaster relief and a free summer camp for boys and girls. We empower people at critical moments on their journeys and help lift them from poverty towards a more stable path.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The society of st. Vincent de paul detroit provides a number of emergency assistance programs to its neighbors in need. Through its 1,994 vincentian volunteers providing assistance at 114 conferences, the society of st. Vincent de paul detroit provided food, hot meals, gently used clothing, furniture and other household items, as well as rental, utility, and housing assistance, and a prison reentry program for recently returning citizens to over 157,742 individuals and families.

    $12,016,594 spentof which $10,084,779 as grants$515,047 earned by the program
    72% of program spending
  2. The society of st. Vincent de paul detroit operated 5 retail stores in 2025. Through those stores, the society distributed over $104,026 of gently used clothing, furniture, and household items free of charge to individuals and families.

    $3,853,558 spent
    23% of program spending
  3. The society of st. Vincent de paul detroit operates a 5 week summer camp program at camp ozanam on the shores of lake huron. Each week long camping experience is free of charge and is offered to disadvantaged boys and girls. During the year ended september 30, 2025, the society of st. Vincent de paul detroit sent 332 campers to summer camp free of charge, and over 129,095 since 1923.

    $777,241 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. The society of st. Vincent de paul detroit has been reaching out and helping those in need regardless of faith, creed, race, social background, health, or gender for over 140 years. All are welcome at our door!the society of st. Vincent de paul detroit partners with a number of like-minded organizations to provide additional services including prison ministry, nutrition center, microloan program, a housing program, several thrift stores, recycle center, free tax services, and other programs that help individuals and families.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,647,393.

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 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($16M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 108 ($17M) Expenses 102 ($16M) Net assets 118 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 108 ($17M) Expenses 86 ($14M) Net assets 187 ($7.4M)2020 Revenue 88 ($13M) Expenses 79 ($12M) Net assets 223 ($8.8M)2021 Revenue 119 ($18M) Expenses 84 ($13M) Net assets 358 ($14M)2022 Revenue 107 ($16M) Expenses 110 ($17M) Net assets 305 ($12M)2023 Revenue 115 ($17M) Expenses 105 ($17M) Net assets 331 ($13M)2024 Revenue 111 ($17M) Expenses 107 ($17M) Net assets 352 ($14M)2025 Revenue 129 ($20M) Expenses 115 ($18M) Net assets 402 ($16M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (115)Net assets (402)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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $18M (+38%).

$8.7M
$9.2M
$11M
$13M
$18M
$15M
$18M
$18M
$20M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 40% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% · 2024 31% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$565k
’17
$459k
’18
$2.9M
’19
$1.1M
’20
$4.9M
’21
−$1.1M
’22
$786k
’23
$65k
’24
$1.5M
’25
4.9
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

Mary Lynn Faunda

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed212120202525181817
Joined·+5+4+0+10+5+1+7+2
No longer listed·55055873
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $115k → $191k.

17 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $324k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT raised.

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

90% 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 IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT.

17%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 49% · 2019 51% · 2020 19% · 2021 32% · 2022 45% · 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

32% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

62% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT'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 $729k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Michigan funders.

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FL

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 4%Fundraising 4%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT?
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,897,944 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ($324,912). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% 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 IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,897,944 in grants to SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $324,912 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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