New York · Nonprofit
SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC
SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,553,231 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach Inc does
Mission
Believing in the inherent goodness of every person and the impact of belonging, spiritus christi prison outreach empowers individuals who are justice-involved and homeless by providing stable housing, life skills, connections to treatment services, and a supportive community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Womens program (jennifer house): the women's program facilitates two groups for women in the monroe county jail and one group in the community, which are conducted by staff and volunteers. In these voluntary groups, women engage in the process of rebuilding their lives. Upon release, many of these homeless ex-offenders elect to go to jennifer house to continue the process. Jennifer house is a residence owned by the organization that provides an immediate, short-term, safe and structured home for homeless women. Here they are reunited with their family, while connecting with the social, physical, and mental services needed to create a solid foundation for rebuilding their lives. Number served: 29
$407,141 spent$212,133 earned by the program18% of program spendingMens program (nielsen house): the men's program visits males in the monroe county jail and in some area state correctional facilities and provides a safe group experience, conducted by staff and volunteers. Relationships are formed in these groups, and the obstacles that led to each incarceration are explored. Upon release, many of these homeless ex-offenders elect to go to nielsen house to continue the process. Nielsen house is a residence owned by the organization that provides immediate, short-term, safe and structured housing for homeless ex-offenders. Here they connect with the social, physical, and mental health services needed to create a solid foundation for rebuilding their lives. Number served: 42
$583,604 spent$344,266 earned by the program25% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing (psh): the spiritus christi shelter plus care program offers men and women long-term permanent housing at multiple locations including voter's block community, frederick douglass apartments, charlotte square on the loop, flower city apartments, the apartments at thurston village, and the federal street townhouses. The permanent supportive housing program is a project-based program accepting referrals from nielsen house and jennifer house, and other similar organizations within the community. Through the permanent supportive housing program, the organization provides case management services to men and women as they continue to address mental health and chemical dependency issues and pursue educational and career goals. Number served: 97
$1,313,447 spent$1,473,818 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,304,192.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $3.7M (+127%).
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
James M Smith Lmsw Casac
Executive director
Board chair
Todd Schirmer
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $55k → $145k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 37% · 2019 37% · 2020 40% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 17% — 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
53% of SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
67% of SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC has grown faster than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.1M
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 SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC?
- SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,553,231 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,553,231 in grants to SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 27 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