Illinois · Nonprofit
St Leonard's Ministries
St Leonard's Ministries (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,923,243 to it, the largest being DAVID B AND PAMELA M WAUD FOUNDATION ($821,275). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What St Leonard's Ministries does
Mission
Provide holistic housing and supportive services to individuals impacted by the carceral system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Saint Leonard's House has provided transitional housing and holistic supports for up to 36 men impacted by the carceral system since it opened in 1954. Holistic care is provided on its campus by Saint Leonard's Ministries as well as by its integrated care partners and service providers. Residents are provided a safe environment and community of support while participating in diverse programming designed for a successful re-entry journey. All services are voluntary and provided free of charge.
$1,468,831 spentof which $15,312 as grants45% of program spendingThe Michael Barlow Center provides educational and workforce development programs for approximately 200 formerly incarcerated Illinois residents each year. Services include job readiness training, computer and technology training, financial literacy and credit building, and culinary and construction skills training. Participants come both from the local community as well as other Saint Leonard's Ministries programs. All services are voluntary and provided free of charge.
$886,801 spentof which $56,789 as grants27% of program spendingGrace House has provided transitional housing and holistic supports for up to 16 women impacted by the carceral system since it opened in 1994. Holistic care is provided by Saint Leonard's Ministries as well as by its integrated care partners and service providers. Residents are provided a safe environment and community of support while participating in gender responsive programming designed for a successful re-entry journey. All services are voluntary and provided free of charge.
$755,204 spentof which $7,575 as grants23% of program spendingSt. Andrew's Court - Since its opening in 1998, St. Andrew's Court has supported and subsidized housing for formerly incarcerated men who successfully complete the St. Leonard's House program.
$0 spent$197,833 earned by the program0% of program spendingHarvest Commons provides permanent supporting housing to men and women who have completed the St. Leonard's Ministries program.
$50,751 spent2% of program spendingWomen's Dignity of Choice provides rental & housing assistance to women.
$78,480 spentof which $27,594 as grants2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,240,067.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.7M to $7.9M (+38%).
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 51% · 2018 37% · 2019 57% · 2020 56% · 2021 59% · 2022 68% · 2023 67% · 2024 47% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of St Leonard's Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% 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
Zack Schrantz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $239k → $933k.
8 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Leonard's Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 Leonard's Ministries has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
40% 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 Leonard's Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 25% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 27% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of St Leonard's Ministries'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 Leonard's Ministries's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Leonard's Ministries's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like St Leonard's Ministries
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 2 related entities
- St Andrew's Court LP · partnership
- St Andrew's Court Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for St Leonard's Ministries: 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 Leonard's Ministries?
- St Leonard's Ministries (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,923,243 to it, the largest being DAVID B AND PAMELA M WAUD FOUNDATION ($821,275). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Leonard's Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $5,923,243 in grants to St Leonard's Ministries, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Leonard's Ministries?
- DAVID B AND PAMELA M WAUD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $821,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Leonard's Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 60 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