Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,025 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $682k
What St John's Community Services - District of Columbia does
Mission
St. John's community services-district of columbia's mission is to advance inclusive communities where every person, regardless of circumstances, has the right and opportunity to live their best life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
St. John's community services - district of columbia (sjcs-dc) is a subsidiary corporation of st. John's community services. The parent corporation is separately incorporated in the district of columbia and governed by a volunteer board of trustees. Each of the subsidiaries, including sjcs-dc, is supported by local leadership, with administrative offices located in the district of columbia where the subsidiary is incorporated. Sjcs-dc contracts to use the copyrighted name "st. John's community services and acquires various administrative support services from the parent corporation. As a condition of the contract, the parent corporation establishes and monitors service quality standards that are accepted by the local subsidiary as best practice. Continue on schedule o.the parent corporation provides administrative support services and technical assistance to the district of columbia subsidiary in the following areas: accounting, cash management, strategic planning, communication and information dissemination, human resources, information technology, quality assurance, corporate compliance and program development. Each of these support services is individually tailored to meet the…
$16,074,231 spent$16,236,321 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,074,231.
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 2024 to 2025, from $45k to $1.6M (+3536%).
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 13% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
Gordon A Thornton
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $25.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA’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
ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'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 $25 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- St John's Community Services · exempt
- St John's Community Services Foundation · exempt
- St John's Community Services Pennsylvania · exempt
- St John's Community Services Tennessee · exempt
- St John's Community Services Virginia · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA?
- ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,025 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,025 in grants to ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2 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