· Private foundation
Ansom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT BEDE CHURCH | $12,050 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION | $6,000 |
| SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| KINIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 13755 | $1,000 |
| ST KIZITO FOUNDATION | $660 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FDN | $500 |
| KNIGHTS OF COL CHARITIES | $500 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FDN | $500 |
| THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
| SACRED HEART SOUTHERN MISSIONS | $150 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +28%
- SFSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +15%
- SKST KIZITO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- MHMALACHI HOUSE INCone grant, 2024 · $300 · revenue +6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $200
- PMPONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES OF USAone grant, 2017 · $100
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST KIZITO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ansom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ansom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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