· Private foundation
Cain 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HADANOU COLLECTIVE | $35,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSTY | $15,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| EARTHLINKS | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF RIO GRANDE VA | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +50%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE6× · 2017–2022 · $71k · revenue +70%- EIEARTHLINKS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEARTone grant, 2024 · $10k
- EDESCUELA DE GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $6k
- TPTHE PETER FRATES FAMILY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +155%
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 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…
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.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
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.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…
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…
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EARTHLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PETER FRATES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEACH HAVEN FIRST AID SQUAD ↗
- Who funds BEACH HAVEN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
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: Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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