Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SOJOURNER HOUSE INC
SOJOURNER HOUSE INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,435,298 to it, the largest being RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($2,088,548). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What Sojourner House Inc does
Mission
To promote healthy relationships by providing culturally sensitive support, advocacy, education, and housing for victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking; and to effect systems change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing programs: sojourner house provides assistance to individuals and families to help them find and secure housing through transitional housing programs, rapid rehousing programs, and permanent supportive housing (psh) programs. Clients are assisted in locating apartments and receive rental assistance and supportive services throughout their time in the program. In fiscal year 2025 we provided 12,325 transitional housing bed nights to 66 clients, 84,008 rapid rehousing bed nights to 416 clients, and 10,559 permanent supportive housing bed nights to 35 clients. Our short term rental assistance program helps clients pay past rent, security deposits, and utility bills. In fiscal year 2025 we helped 70 clients for a total of $220,514.96.
$5,879,818 spent$321,362 earned by the program70% of program spendingDrop-in / community services / education: sojourner house operates a drop-in advocacy and resource center in providence, ri, where clients can access emotional support, support groups, clinical therapy, health and wellness services, legal services, and other supportive programs. During fiscal year 2025, we provided 30,258 supportive sessions across our community programs for a total of 6,875 hours. There were 21,346 supportive sessions across our housing programs for a total of 11,495 hours. A total of 376 clients received clinical services through 1,235 sessions covering 1,864 hours. We provided 240 community health screenings and outreach to 1,164 community members through wellness education, prevention, and resource connection services. We also facilitated 15 support groups serving 112 clients across 1,818 hours, and 765 clients received basic needs support.
$2,212,609 spent$117,548 earned by the program26% of program spendingTrafficking: sojourner house provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, basic needs, clinical counseling, and related supportive services to victims of human trafficking. In fiscal year 2025 the theia emergency shelter served a total of 35 clients with 2,152 bed nights. We also provided transitional housing for 21 clients with 4,726 bed nights in the trafficking program. 213 thiea clients participated in 11,171 sessions for 5,287 hours of supportive programming.
$171,245 spent2% of program spendingHousing development: sojourner house has an emerging housing development program. At the conclusion of fiscal year 2025 sojourner owns 9 buildings in rhode island. Three of these buildings with 10 units are owned and in the process of being refurbished. During the ensuing fy sojourner has acquired an additional 3 buildings with 10 combined units and is under contract for another 3 unit building, which is new construction. When all units are operational sojourner will control 43 units which will aid the agency is its core pursuit of rebuilding its clients' lives.
$170,994 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,434,666.
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.
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 $6.2M to $11M (+70%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 59% · 2019 66% · 2020 62% · 2021 68% · 2022 55% · 2023 75% · 2024 68% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Vanessa Volz
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $489k → $1.1M.
11 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 SOJOURNER HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
SOJOURNER HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
66% 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 SOJOURNER HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 80% · 2019 51% · 2020 37% · 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 22% — 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
58% of SOJOURNER HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
57% of SOJOURNER HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding SOJOURNER HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.2M on record — $24.1M federal, $53k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$18.1M
- Department of Justice$6.0M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$53k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOJOURNER HOUSE INC
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lucy Stone Holdings LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC?
- SOJOURNER HOUSE INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,435,298 to it, the largest being RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($2,088,548). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOJOURNER HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $9,435,298 in grants to SOJOURNER HOUSE INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOJOURNER HOUSE INC?
- RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,088,548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOJOURNER HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 88 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