New York · Nonprofit
St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc
St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc (New York) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,109,797 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($4,200,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc does
Mission
Inspired by the spirit of st. Vincent depaul, st. John's bread and life's mission is to bring care and service to the poor, to serve all in need through emergency food programs and social services and, through advocacy and education, strive to heighten public awareness to confront and alleviate poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Soup kitchen programs: meals and nutrition the soup kitchen, mobile soup kitchen and food pantry are the heart and soul of the daily work done at the st. John's bread and life program (the program). The program is the one of the largest emergency food providers, serving 11,000 individual meals weekly.
$5,748,313 spent90% of program spendingSocial services: case management services assists individuals in securing benefits, etc. We refer individuals to outside services, such as psychiatric, shelter, etc. Our organization is a registered single stop benefits access provider.
$614,742 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,363,055.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.8M to $7.4M (+29%).
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: 2017 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 29% · 2022 29% · 2023 28% · 2024 17% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
SR Caroline Tweedy RSM
Executive director
Board chair
Ms Martha K Hirst
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $512k → $2.5M.
15 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Johns Bread & Life Program Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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 Johns Bread & Life Program Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 Johns Bread & Life Program Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 51% · 2019 45% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 36% · 2023 40% — 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
42% of St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
82% of St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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.
Against its field
St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc is better cushioned than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like St Johns Bread & Life Program 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- St John's University · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc?
- St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc (New York) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,109,797 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($4,200,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $18,109,797 in grants to St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Johns Bread & Life Program 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 97 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