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Caritas Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Caritas Charitable 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.

$24k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

51% of Caritas Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hillsdale College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Caritas Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $24k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’18
6
’19
5
’20
4
’21
1
’22
1
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$235kArts & Culture$39kCommunity Improvement$21kHealth$16kPublic Benefit$10kInternational$3k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
CODA$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$5,000
SAN MATEO PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$2,500
STONE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAN MATEO PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%STANFORD PALLIATIVE MEDICINE: $1k → 8%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $105k → 14%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAME: $100k → 13%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10k → 7%SAN MATEO PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $3k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%SF MOMA: $3k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5k → 14%SAN MATEO PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $3k → 7%SF MOMA: $3k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $8k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $8k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $8k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $5k → 10%CODA: $5k → 10%SF JAZZ: $3k → 10%SF JAZZ: $3k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $500 → 10%STONE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 6 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$84k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+33%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +112%
  • GR
    GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +200%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -50%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +33%
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
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
2
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
5
International Academy of Fine Art

The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).

International
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
New York University

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.

Education
8
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
11
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
12
The Stanford Theatre Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $110,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAME: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAMETHE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherCODA: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $27,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO…SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO…SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $1,000 · HealthLeadership Institute: $10,000 · Public BenefitSAN MATEO PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,847 · ReligionTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$135,000Other$111,000Arts & Culture$39,000Health$16,000Public Benefit$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Religion$1,847Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,847 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Caritas Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caritas Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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