· Public charity
Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools
Blocs bridges the business community and individuals with schools in pennsylvania to establish financial assistance to families in need, bolster school infrastructures, and expand educational opportunities for families.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k159 grants · $19M
- $250k+96 grants · $72M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNTINGDON VALLEY | $8,038,439 |
| CONESTOGA CHRISTIAN | $3,404,948 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENTS | $2,779,862 |
| DEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $2,485,381 |
| REGINA LUMINUS ACADEMY | $1,811,686 |
| MERCY SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL LEARNING | $1,728,840 |
| LIGUORI ACADEMY | $1,609,235 |
| KOHELET YESHIVA | $1,532,542 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES | $1,489,625 |
| ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR | $1,439,805 |
| CHRIST THE DIVINE TEACHER | $1,438,032 |
| PHILADELPHIA CHRISTIAN CENTER | $1,423,548 |
| HOLY CROSS REGIONAL | $1,234,625 |
| LANCASTER CATHOLIC | $1,195,630 |
| ST JOSEPH ST ROBERT | $1,175,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
340 repeat relationships — 279 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 72 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29M 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 SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $39M · revenue +5% · 31% of their budget
- CRCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +31%
- HSHAVERFORD SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $489k · revenue +59%
- MFMISSION FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISMone grant, 2021 · $270k · revenue +15%
- LSLA SALLE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -11%
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.
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth
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.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.
To inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social and environmental curriculum.
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
To provide for the education of all students enrolled in preschool through twelfth grade. ultimately, collegiate school prepares a student who is knowledgeable, multi-disciplined, aware of tradition, and receptive to innovation.a student…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
We inspire passinate, confident, and creative students in an individualized, hands-on learning environment that integrates christian values while striving for academic excellence.
As a classical christian school, st. stephen's academy aims to provide an academically excellent education in a grace-filled environment that develops christian character and equips students with tools of learning that will last a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Crefeld School and the most unlike its peers is Marian L Spitler Lebanon High School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
184 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. 184 of the 480 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIGUORI INC ↗
- Who funds DEVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
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: Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Henkels Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Maguire Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Elevate 215 · The Howley Foundation · The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila · Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools 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.