Missouri · Nonprofit
ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES
ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,044,907 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ($7,178,538). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What St Francis Community Services does
Mission
St. Francis community services empowers low-income multicultural individuals and families by providing educational opportunities, holistic services, and legal aid to create a lasting impact on their lives and our communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization closed the vietnamese health clinic on june 30, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The catholic legal assistance ministry (clam) has provided free legal aid in the st. Louis area for 38 years. The program in fiscal year 2025 served 1,377 people, including immigrants, victims of domestic violence, families seeking guardianship of minors or incapacitated adults, and abused/neglected children. Results were positive: for example, 95% of immigrants who applied for work permits were approved, and 98% of families petitioning for guardianship were successful. Eligible clients must have an annual income of 150% of the federal poverty level or less. The saint louis university school of law donates office space, computers and supplies to clam, while law school students serve as interns. This ongoing partnership allows clam to keep overhead expenses at a minimum. Additionally, volunteer attorneys annually contribute services valued at more than $300,000. In fy25, these pro-bono attorneys handled more than 55 guardianship cases, for example.
$794,033 spentof which $26,120 as grants$86,219 earned by the program36% of program spendingSt. Francis community services provided help and hope to 641 immigrants in fiscal year 2025. Of these, 155 people received case management; 157 started a new life in the st. Louis region via abriendo puertas; 104 children and adults participated in bilingual mental health counseling; and 92 children attended after-school activities, tutoring and summer camp. More than 133 vietnamese senior adults visited the vietnamese health clinic by june 30, 2025, when the program closed. During the year, 100% of children in tutoring advanced in reading; 93% of adults in counseling initiated and sustained healthy behaviors; and 100% of children in youth programming advanced to the next grade in school.
$939,306 spentof which $36,901 as grants$9,292 earned by the program42% of program spendingPathways to progress is a joint program of catholic charities of the archdiocese of st. Louis and st. Francis community services. The program empowers low-income families to improve their economic stability and make effective decisions that positively impact their future. This is achieved through long-term (2 to 3 years) personalized case management, legal aid, financial education, employment guidance and access to services from other catholic charities ministries and community partners. In fiscal year 2025, 55 families (190 individuals) participated in the program in st. Louis city and st. Louis county. Fourteen of those families were preparing to graduate, joining 63 alumni who successfully completed the program in the past. Additionally, pathways to progress launched an effort to establish services in washington county, mo. Since its inception in 2016, pathways to progress has served 188 families with 520 children.
$498,161 spentof which $15,382 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,231,500.
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 $1.9M to $3.4M (+80%).
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: 2021 7% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
John Schulte
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $453k → $1.1M.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 63% · 2019 52% · 2020 43% · 2021 90% · 2022 66% · 2023 69% — 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
50% of ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
99% of ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Archdiocese of St Louis · exempt
- Catholic Charities Foundation · exempt
- Catholic Charities of the Arcdhiocese of St Louis · exempt
- St Louis City Catholic Church Real Estate Corporation · exempt
- St Louis County Catholic Church Real Estate Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,044,907 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ($7,178,538). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $12,044,907 in grants to ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS is the largest funder on record, with $7,178,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 35 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