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St Gerard House

St Gerard House (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,725 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($756,813). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.6M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$1.6M
17/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What St Gerard House does

Mission

Our Mission is to help individuals with autism and their families experience more joy and achieve meaningful life outcomes by providing evidence-based therapies, innovative programs and continuous advocacy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grotto Programs: The Grotto Therapeutic Center provides 1:1 and group, early intensive and ongoing behavior intervention and a continuing, life-skills acquisition program for autistic participants age 3 - 21.

    $3,403,071 spent$3,140,585 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Feed the Need: The Feed the Need program provides various avenues to assist individuals with autism and/or other developmental disabilities who are 16 years old and older, develop social skills and acquire pre-vocational training.

  3. Family Group Night: Family Group Night is a free, monthly meeting for whole families caring for family members with special needs. This group is not diagnosis specific and covers topics that are unique or important to families with children with special needs. Free dinner and childcare are provided.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,403,071.

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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($469k)2018 Revenue 146 ($2.0M) Expenses 138 ($1.8M) Net assets 140 ($658k)2019 Revenue 149 ($2.0M) Expenses 152 ($1.9M) Net assets 152 ($714k)2020 Revenue 187 ($2.5M) Expenses 184 ($2.4M) Net assets 188 ($882k)2021 Revenue 254 ($3.4M) Expenses 230 ($2.9M) Net assets 291 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 253 ($3.4M) Expenses 278 ($3.5M) Net assets 260 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 320 ($4.3M) Expenses 316 ($4.0M) Net assets 315 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 344 ($4.6M) Expenses 349 ($4.5M) Net assets 352 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (344)Expenses (349)Net assets (352)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.8M (+43%).

$993k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$2.1M
$2.2M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 15% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of St Gerard House’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’17
$196k
’18
$57k
’19
$168k
’20
$485k
’21
−$147k
’22
$273k
’23
$171k
’24
1.0
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

Caroline Long

CEO

Board chair

Julie Wilmot

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed911131113121316
Joined·+3+7+2+5+2+4+5
No longer listed·1543332
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $12k → $134k.

10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Gerard House’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

St Gerard House leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 Gerard House.

34%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 58% · 2020 43% · 2021 59% · 2022 82% · 2023 75% — 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

31% of St Gerard House's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of St Gerard House's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
PA
CT
DE
NM
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $462k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

St Gerard House has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 17%Fundraising 7%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds St Gerard House?
St Gerard House (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,725 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($756,813). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does St Gerard House have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,217,725 in grants to St Gerard House, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of St Gerard House?
DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $756,813 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like St Gerard House find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing