Louisiana · Nonprofit
SON OF A SAINT
SON OF A SAINT (Louisiana) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,080,894 to it, the largest being OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ($2,458,333). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 132
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Son of a Saint does
Mission
Son of a Saint (soas) is a non-profit organization serving the new orleans metro area formed to enhance the lives of fatherless boys through mentorship, emotional support, development of life skills, exposure to constructive experiences and formation of positive, lasting peer to peer relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Behavioral health - Son of a Saint employs a mental health specialist to provide evaluations and ongoing counseling for mentees. Recreational access - Son of a Saint mentees are exposed to horseback riding, fishing, yoga, music, chess, sports, the arts and more. Every boy participates in at least one of these activities weekly. Mentors also support and encourage mentees in their extracurricular activities by attending games and events. Group & individual mentorship - regular daylog mentorship sessions are designed to aid mentees' academic, personal and overall development. Son of a Saint hosts, on average, twenty group mentorship sessions per month covering topics such as etiquette, time management, decision making, critical thinking, anger management, moral reasoning, life skills, work ethic, leadership, civic responsibility, teamwork and integrity. Mentors and mentees attend frequent outings such as sporting events, educational trips, movies, dining, jparades and volunteer activities. Most mentees are paired with a dedicated mentor to facilitate ongoing individual mentor relationship. Broadening of horizens - Son of a Saint facilitates trips through travel grants for groups of…
$5,945,459 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,945,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $22M (+55%).
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.
93% of SON OF A SAINT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Bivian Sonny Lee Iii
CEO
Board chair
Carol Asher
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $89k → $2.9M.
25 of 132 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SON OF A SAINT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 132 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
SON OF A SAINT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
69% 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 SON OF A SAINT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 66% · 2019 32% · 2020 43% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 38% — 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
47% of SON OF A SAINT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of SON OF A SAINT's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
SON OF A SAINT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SON OF A SAINT
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SON OF A SAINT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT?
- SON OF A SAINT (Louisiana) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,080,894 to it, the largest being OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ($2,458,333). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SON OF A SAINT have?
- IRS filings report 132 organizations giving $12,080,894 in grants to SON OF A SAINT, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SON OF A SAINT?
- OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,458,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SON OF A SAINT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 132 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