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Archdiocesan Educational Fund Co Wells Fargo - Andrew McCloskey
The archdiocesan education fund is operated exclusively for religious, educational, charitable and scientific purposes in that it is operated so as to provide financial support and assistance to the general educational programs and activities conducted by the roman catholic archdiocese of philadelphia or parishes thereof.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of AMBASSADORS FUND FOR CATHOLIC EDU ARCHDIOCESAN EDUCATIONAL FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $737k
- $250k+1 grant · $813k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA | $813,266 |
| LA SALLE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH | $127,217 |
| CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| STEWARDSHIP MISSION OF FAITH | $113,245 |
| ST LUCY DAY SCHOOL FOR CHILD | $85,000 |
| CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH | $70,000 |
| ST MARY INTERPAROCHIAL SCHOOL | $66,959 |
| INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS | $46,194 |
| LANSDALE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $37,464 |
| ARCHBISHOP JOHN CARROLL HS | $37,000 |
| LA SALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCH | $32,366 |
| DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC | $32,000 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL | $27,012 |
| IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY | $26,247 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $559k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- IMINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS7× · 2017–2023 · $691k · revenue +5%
- FOFRIENDS OF ST MALACHY3× · 2018–2021 · $367k · revenue +40% · 41% of their budget
- CRCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $344k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGEone grant, 2020 · $150k
- SLST LUCY DAY SCHOOL FOR CHILDone grant, 2022 · $82k
- AAALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +53%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
John paul ii catholic high school forms students of faith, knowledge, and service through education and development of person in mind, body, and spirit.
An augustinian school, catholic and independent, living the augustinian spirit of veritas, unitas and caritas. veritas (truth) - malvern is dedicated to the pursuit of truth through academic excellence and the growth of each of its…
John paul the great is a private, pk4-12 independent school committed to teaching an exemplary, rigorous classical curriculum, and a comprehensive understanding of the roman catholic faith.
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
To be a college preparatory school of academic excellence rooted in the faith, values and caring of the judeo-christian tradition.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
To provide classical, christian education so that our students will grow in wisdom, virtue, and joy.
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immaculata University and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Little Flower Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MALACHY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Culture Project International ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STEWARDSHIP A MISSION OF FAITH ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHI ↗
- Who funds Friends of Little Flower Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CARROLL PATRIOT EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila · Connelly Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henkels Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Paul E Kelly Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Howley Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Archdiocesan Educational Fund Co Wells Fargo - Andrew McCloskey funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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