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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.

$95M
Granted FY2025still arriving
362
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$487MReligion$1.3MRecreation & Sports$159kArts & Culture$20kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 362 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k92 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k159 grants · $19M
  • $250k+96 grants · $72M
$111,145
Median grant
1
States reached
$256M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MONARCH'S WAY: $263k → 9%CHAMPION CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $221k → 17%CHAMPION CHRISTIAN: $134k → 17%KEYSTONE COLLEGE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $555k → 13%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $1.5M → 12%CHAMPION CHRISTIAN: $125k → 17%CHAMPION CHRISTIAN: $62k → 17%HOUSE OF HOPE YORK PA: $63k → 9%SPRINGTIME SCHOOL: $81k → 6%SPRINGTIME SCHOOL: $81k → 6%SPRINGTIME SCHOOL: $57k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$454M · 340 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

340
65

Total granted

$454M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+4%

Still filing today

32%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IM
    INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39M · revenue +5% · 31% of their budget
  • CR
    CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +31%
  • HS
    HAVERFORD SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $489k · revenue +59%
  • MF
    MISSION FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $270k · revenue +54%
  • LS
    LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Christian Academy

The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.

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2
Manhattan Christian School

Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth

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3
John Paul the Great Academy

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.

Education
4
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
5
Presbyterian Day School

Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.

Education
6
The Childrens School for Child-Centered Education Inc

To inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social and environmental curriculum.

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7
Presbyterian School

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…

Education
8
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

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…

Education
9
Hillside Academy

We inspire passinate, confident, and creative students in an individualized, hands-on learning environment that integrates christian values while striving for academic excellence.

Education
10
Westminster Academy

The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.

Education
11
Collegiate School

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…

Education
12
Austin Trinity School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Crefeld School; 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.
04the grantee network

184 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
179/184
Grantees still filing
116/184
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OFFICE OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION: $77,930,342 · OtherOFFICE OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION+148 more: $207,051,418 · Other+148 moreINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $38,574,114 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $14,153,846 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOLHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $12,943,465 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOLWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $9,762,521 · EducationWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INCMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $7,585,366 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $6,037,615 · Education+36 more: $65,336,000 · Education+36 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $1,612,917 · Human ServicesINDIAN CREEK VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $656,493 · Human ServicesLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $554,572 · Human ServicesABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,200,610 · ReligionST THOMAS MORE CENTER FOR CATHOLIC LIFE: $1,062,333 · ReligionSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $751,061 · Arts & CultureNAZARETH PREP: $710,315 · EmploymentMARIAN L SPITLER LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $681,437 · PhilanthropyG E MINISTRIES INC: $535,902 · Public Benefit
Other$284,981,760Education$154,392,927Human Services$2,823,982Religion$2,262,943Arts & Culture$751,061Employment$710,315Philanthropy$681,437Public Benefit$535,902

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $38,574,114 over 9y, 31% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $14,153,846 over 9y, 18% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $12,943,465 over 8y, 11% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $9,762,521 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $7,585,366 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $6,037,615 over 9y, 11% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $5,120,914 over 6y, 19% of budgetDEVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $4,793,916 over 8y, 30% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY: $4,783,644 over 9y, 38% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $4,414,435 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $4,369,911 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $4,066,617 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetDREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC: $2,972,622 over 9y, 23% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $2,394,039 over 7y, 19% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $2,363,769 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetST PETER'S SCHOOL: $2,262,029 over 7y, 13% of budgetREGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY: $2,174,936 over 8y, 74% of budgetCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $1,898,637 over 7y, 36% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $1,894,788 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetREGINA COELI ACADEMY: $1,779,195 over 9y, 31% of budgetYSC ACADEMY: $1,693,616 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $1,612,917 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetKOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,532,542 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $1,493,709 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $1,318,650 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $1,317,195 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $1,228,737 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,214,850 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,200,610 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $1,192,066 over 6y, 27% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $1,191,323 over 9y, 13% of budgetMONTGOMERY SCHOOL: $1,175,146 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,165,845 over 7y, 13% of budgetST THOMAS MORE CENTER FOR CATHOLIC LIFE: $1,062,333 over 9y, 30% of budgetSOUTH HILLS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $1,003,556 over 2y, 25% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $981,294 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetBenchmark School: $980,526 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $948,693 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL: $822,039 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBISHOP CARROLL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $812,073 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $791,320 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY: $784,822 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $766,175 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $751,061 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNAZARETH PREP: $710,315 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetGreat Commission Schools Inc: $708,365 over 3y, 45% of budgetGREENE TOWNE SCHOOL INC: $667,059 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetINDIAN CREEK VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $656,493 over 8y, 14% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Central Pennsylvania …Henkels FoundationConnelly FoundationThe Cedarcrest Charit…The Maguire FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…Elevate 215The Howley FoundationThe Catholic Foundati…Foundation for Jewish…Pennsylvania Automoti…United Way of Greater…
Central Pennsylvania Scholarship FundPA232.2× affinity168 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 480 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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