St Joseph Infant & Maternity Home

St Joseph Infant & Maternity Home

St. Joseph Home was founded in 1873 as St. Joseph's Infant Asylum by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. Its original mission was to care for unmarried mothers and their infants at a time when few institutions offered refuge. Today, under President and CEO Dan Connors, it operates as a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Charity, focused entirely on supporting children and adults with complex disabilities through medical care, residential housing, and day programs. The organization manages a campus in Cincinnati and multiple community-based residential homes — including Alice's House on Madison Road and properties in Sharonville, College Hill, and Loveland — alongside an adult day program facility in Blue Ash. The operating model integrates fee-for-service Medicaid revenue and county partnerships with the income generated by the St. Joseph Home of Cincinnati Foundation. That foundation holds a publicly traded securities portfolio, administered in part by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which provides a structural endowment buffer against fluctuations in public funding. The foundation's investment portfolio adds an institutional allocation layer not typical for social-service nonprofits. Former Board Chair Michael F. Kennedy, who retired from Fifth Third Institutional Asset Management, brought institutional portfolio oversight to the role. The partnership with Hamilton County Developmental Disabilities Services (HCDDS) on Alice's House Respite Center further anchors the balance sheet in government-supported service contracts. St. Joseph Home maintains membership in the Leadership Council for Nonprofits and the Human Services Chamber of Hamilton County. Structurally, St. Joseph Home differs from standard charitable endowments because it operates the service-delivery assets itself — it is both the grantmaker and the operator. The foundation holds and stewards the invested corpus, while the operating entity runs the real assets. This layered separation between endowment management and care delivery allows the mission to survive political funding cycles, which is a genuine structural differentiator among asset-owning human-service nonprofits.