Tennessee · Nonprofit
ST PAUL INSTITUTE
ST PAUL INSTITUTE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,960 to it, the largest being THE SIMS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST 44-5001145 ($28,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $485k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $249k
What St Paul Institute does
Mission
Support and promote Catholic education, culture and leadership through resources and evangelization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024, our store-model ministry had 10,770 encounters where Catholic resources and presence was shared. We served 450 people online through our web-presence. Our house of prayer and formation served 138 women through on-on-one direct, relational accompaniment on a bi-weekly and monthly basis. We saw a 24% increase in women seeking accompaniment. Our network of directors and mentors grew to include 18 trained and experienced women from across the US and Canada. We continued serving those studying the art of direction and accompaniment through ongoing formation, and saw our membership increase by 73% to 95 members attending our free, live monthly teachings, and we taught 220 students through our partnerships with seminaries and institutions of higher education. We participated in 7 partnered events. We hosted 1 10-week ongoing formation study, 2 mornings of reflection for women, and 5 small groups for women. We hosted 33 ministry young adult events.
$393,446 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $393,446.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $113k to $336k (+196%).
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 0% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of ST PAUL INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 PAUL INSTITUTE’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 PAUL INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
28% 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 PAUL INSTITUTE.
“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 PAUL INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PAUL INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ST PAUL INSTITUTE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 PAUL INSTITUTE: 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 PAUL INSTITUTE?
- ST PAUL INSTITUTE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,960 to it, the largest being THE SIMS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST 44-5001145 ($28,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST PAUL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $38,960 in grants to ST PAUL INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST PAUL INSTITUTE?
- THE SIMS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST 44-5001145 is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST PAUL INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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