Kentucky · Nonprofit
ST JOHN CENTER INC
ST JOHN CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,755,567 to it, the largest being THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ($2,552,636). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $14M
What St John Center Inc does
Mission
St john center (sjc) was founded in 1986 in response to the rise of homelessness in the louisville metro area. Sjc remains committed to providing refuge, resources, and services to those experiencing homelessness. Over the past 39 years, sjc has grown to offer three core programs: day shelter and social services center, permanent supportive housing, and street outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
St john center's day shelter and social services center provides a safe, welcoming place for individuals experiencing homelessness to access shelter, resources, and services. Many clients face significant barriers to housing, including health disparities, lack of documentation, and limited support systems. Staff and volunteers work side by side with clients to remove these barriers, one step at a time, so that individuals can move into permanent housing. During the fiscal year 2025, 3,163 clients visited the day shelter and social services center 52,776 times to access these services: 1) referrals, documentation, and safety: staff ensured consistent service provision, a safe environment, and assistance with ids and community resource referrals. 2) housing support services. Two housing specialists guided clients through the housing process. 3) service partners. Community partners such as the veterans administration, legal aid, ky harm reduction coalition, louisville recovery community center, phoenix health care, and wellspring's assertive community treatment team regularly provided on-site services. 4) staff connected clients with mental health, substance use, and recovery…
$889,943 spent31% of program spendingSt john center's permanent supportive housing (psh) program focuses on individuals with the greatest challenges to maintaining permanent housing, including chronic homelessness, mental illness, substance use disorder, trauma, and incarceration histories. Most have little to no income and require long-term, consistent support to remain stably housed. In fy25, we completed development of sheehan landing, our first single site permanent supportive housing facility, in partnership with ldg. Sheehan landing, consist of 80 1- bed room apartments, a clinical facility, and space residents & clients to access wrap around supportive services. In fy25, sjc's psh program accomplished the following: 221 clients received case management services; 98% of clients retained their housing for 12 or more months, which exceeds hud's indicator for housing retention of 80% ; 48% of clients obtained, maintained, or increased income; ongoing treatment and recovery referrals ensured residents had access to counseling, recovery support groups, and clinical services.
$1,135,031 spentof which $504,203 as grants$3,797 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe street outreach program launched in january 2019 in partnership with uniting partners for women and children and louisville metro government, the street outreach program connects individuals and families living on the streets and in encampments with shelter, services, and resources throughout the community. Each interaction builds trust and moves clients closer to permanent housing.in fy25, the street outreach team worked with 837 people were provided 7,839 services including document assistance, food, housing navigation, and treatment and recovery referrals. 105 individuals successfully moved into permanent housing. Created a new community centered referral tool.
$808,972 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,833,946.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $7.3M to $14M (+92%).
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 45% · 2022 36% · 2023 47% · 2024 67% · 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. 1 of the last 5 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
Ra'Shann Martin
Executive director
Board chair
Smith Rodes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $303k → $626k.
9 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 JOHN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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 JOHN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 JOHN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 71% · 2019 57% · 2020 49% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 2023 57% — 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
48% of ST JOHN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
84% of ST JOHN CENTER INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 ST JOHN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$6.2M
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 ST JOHN CENTER 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- St John Center Properties LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST JOHN CENTER INC: 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 ST JOHN CENTER INC?
- ST JOHN CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,755,567 to it, the largest being THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ($2,552,636). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST JOHN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $5,755,567 in grants to ST JOHN CENTER INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST JOHN CENTER INC?
- THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,552,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST JOHN CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 64 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