California · Nonprofit
ST JOSEPH CENTER
ST JOSEPH CENTER (California) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,738,445 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($3,358,950). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $21M
What St Joseph Center does
Mission
To provide working poor families, as well as homeless men, women, and children of all ages with the inner resources and tools to become productive, stable and self-supporting members of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing services at the st. Joseph center serve all populations, from individuals and families needing short term rental assistance to our homeless neighbors who are overcoming mental health diagnoses, physical impairments, substance abuse challenges, and longstanding unemployment. Sjc provides on-site case management for seventeen permanent supportive housing developments and will serve in this role for five additional sites currently in development. St. Joseph center served 3,878 clients ranging from transitional-aged-youth (tay) to children and their families in their housing programs. 1,144 were newly housed in permanent housing and 1,146 were housing in interim housing. An additional 1,297 maintained their housing, resulting in a 92.64% housing retention rate.
$31,218,153 spentof which $13,515,346 as grants62% of program spendingOutreach and engagement includes the sjc homeless service center (hsc) in venice, one of only two access centers to serve the westside's estimated 6,000+ homeless men and women; outreach teams throughout los angeles county, such as the vehicular homeless outreach program team (vhop) who help families and individuals who are living out of cars, vans, and rvs; bread and roses cafe which prepares more than 150 meals a day for people experiencing homelessness; and the bread and roses pantry (formerly the sjc food pantry) helping more than 4,732 working poor families each week by providing groceries free of cost. St. Joseph center had 22,861 visits to the food pantry and served 46,755 meals at its cafe. Additionally, st. Joseph center contacted 3,431 clients through street outreach and engaged a total of 4,160 clients through its various engagement progams.
$9,212,553 spentof which $1,547,255 as grants18% of program spendingMental health services are a critical part of sjc's program strategy. Programs in this service division include animo which provides mental health services to the underserved latino community; recovery, resilience and reintegration services for chronically homeless individuals who are isolated or unable to access traditional mental health outpatient services; the prevention and early intervention program (pei) that provides one-on-one counseling therapy; and the santa monica youth resource team who work with at-risk youth, ages 16-24, to stabilize their lives and improve their mental health. St. Joseph center provided 25,576 mental health services including individual therapy, targeted case management, group therapy etc. Altogether 509 clients received 20,175 hours of services.
$5,896,588 spentof which $755,161 as grants12% of program spendingEducation and vocational training prevents at-risk individuals and families from losing their homes and provides skills training so people can get good paying jobs to support themselves and their families. Vocational training at sjc includes the bread and roses kitchen (formerly the culinary training program), codetalk which teaches recently homeless and underemployed women the skills they need to achieve self-sufficiency, and fortifi la, a tech training program for justice-experienced individuals. In addition, the sjc early learning center offers high quality pre-school for low-income families. St. Joseph center provided educational and vocational training to 258 clients with 94% graduation rate.
$4,095,924 spentof which $1,581,159 as grants$102,712 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,423,218.
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 $19M to $29M (+51%).
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 67% · 2018 78% · 2019 83% · 2020 70% · 2021 84% · 2022 84% · 2023 89% · 2024 91% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ST JOSEPH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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
Dr Ryan J Smith
President & CEO
Board chair
Hon Karen A Gauff
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.8M.
24 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 JOSEPH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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 JOSEPH CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 JOSEPH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 20% · 2019 33% · 2020 23% · 2021 31% · 2022 17% · 2023 26% — 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 JOSEPH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
95% of ST JOSEPH CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 JOSEPH CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ST JOSEPH CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
- Department of Labor$898k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$454k
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 JOSEPH CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST JOSEPH CENTER: 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 JOSEPH CENTER?
- ST JOSEPH CENTER (California) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,738,445 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($3,358,950). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST JOSEPH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $21,738,445 in grants to ST JOSEPH CENTER, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST JOSEPH CENTER?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,358,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST JOSEPH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 136 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