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ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $46,388 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($46,388). 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
$339k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
$5.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What St Jude's Ranch for Children Charitable Foundation Inc does

Mission

St. Jude's ranch for children charitable foundation's (the foundation) mission is to support the entities of st. Jude's ranch for children, inc., whose mission is to provide therapeutic foster care and emergency shelter services for abused, abandoned, and neglected children from infancy to 25 years of age in a family-like environment. They provide therapeutic programs, basic necessities, and life skills needed to transition into a stable environment once they leave the ranch's care, so the children can reach their full potential.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. St. Jude's ranch for children charitable foundation's (the foundation) mission is to support the entities of st. Jude's ranch for children, inc., whose mission is to provide therapeutic foster care and emergency shelter services for abused, abandoned, and neglected children from infancy to 25 years of age in a family-like environment. They provide therapeutic programs, basic necessities, and life skills needed to transition into a stable environment once they leave the ranch's care, so the children can reach their full potential.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($177k) Expenses 100 ($32k) Net assets 100 ($4.3M)2018 Revenue 112 ($198k) Expenses 102 ($33k) Net assets 103 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 105 ($186k) Expenses 103 ($33k) Net assets 109 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 80 ($143k) Expenses 106 ($34k) Net assets 108 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 242 ($430k) Expenses 86 ($28k) Net assets 124 ($5.3M)2022 Revenue 178 ($315k) Expenses 143 ($46k) Net assets 112 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 217 ($385k) Expenses 138 ($44k) Net assets 120 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 249 ($442k) Expenses 146 ($47k) Net assets 129 ($5.5M)2025 Revenue 191 ($339k) Expenses 228 ($73k) Net assets 138 ($5.9M)
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Revenue (191)Expenses (228)Net assets (138)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 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $5.3M (+15%).

$4.3M
$4.5M
$4.7M
$4.6M
$5.3M
$4.8M
$5.1M
$5.5M
$5.9M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$145k
’17
$165k
’18
$153k
’19
$109k
’20
$402k
’21
$269k
’22
$341k
’23
$395k
’24
$266k
’25
18
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

Christina Vela

CEO

Board chair

Lance Knight

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed6710111510151313
Joined·+1+6+1+4+0+6+0+3
No longer listed·03005123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $6k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 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 JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin78% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • St Judes Ranch for Children Inc · exempt
  • St Judes Ranch - Nevada Region · exempt
  • Hope Shines Bright Holding Co Inc · exempt
  • Hope Shines Bright Receiving Co Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC?
ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $46,388 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($46,388). 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 JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $46,388 in grants to ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $46,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 1 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