Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC
THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,481,681 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD L RISPONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,087,231). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What The Sister Dulce Foundation Inc does
Mission
To support the ministry of Sister Dulce. Her ministry involves praying with the sick and dying patients in the hopes of a physical and/or spiritual healing along with providing such persons and their families spiritual healing along with providing such persons and their families
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sister Dulce ministers to approximately 20 sick and dying patients per day from Monday thru Thursday.
$378,385 spentof which $85,256 as grants$145,477 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $378,385.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $5.1M to $7.6M (+49%).
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.
65% of THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $29k → $3.1M.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 95% — broadly stable.
“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
38% of THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 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
100% of THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION 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 Louisiana
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
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC: 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 THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,481,681 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD L RISPONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,087,231). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,481,681 in grants to THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE EDWARD L RISPONE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,087,231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 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