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Catch-22 Foundation

To support children's causes

$30k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$205kEducation$121kReligion$121kHealth$100kHuman Services$75k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$378k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GO MINISTRIES$30,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–19, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNLIMITED PLAY INC: $25k → 5%SEALKIDS INC: $101k → 9%LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC: $75k → 11%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 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.

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Upper Providence Little League Inc Little League Charter #2382713

Upper providence little league aspires to be an outstanding educational-athletic organization that provides a high-quality experience in which every athlete 1) is coached using the principles of the little league double-goal coach 2) has…

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2
Sw Michigan Miracle League

Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.

Recreation & Sports
3
Little Lions Preschool Inc

Little lions preschool mission is to see every student as a unique child of god and accept them as they are in their various stages of development. we strive to give every child in our program the opportunity to learn and grow…

Education
4
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
5
Caddies for Kids

Our mission is to transform junior golf by providing a platform for junior players to gain access to exceptional high school caddies that provide youth mentorship for the future of the game.

Recreation & Sports
6
Los Angeles Universal Preschool

Child360 works to improve the quality of early learning and give children the best start in school and life. its mission is to strengthen education programs, nurture family engagement, grow a qualified workforce and advance public policy…

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7
Kids Unlimited Inc

Kids unlimited commits to offering children in under-served areas the opportunities they need to reach their fullest potential. we will do this by helping them develop the necessary academic and social tools, along with a strong sense of…

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8
Carolina Miracle League Inc

Carolina miracle league has operated under the philosophy that every child deserves the chance to play baseball. the organization provides recreational baseball opportunities and facilities for children with intellectual and physical…

Human Services
9
United Day Care Center

To provide quality,holistic,affordable,licensed child care and early childhood education without regard to race,color,national origin,sex or handicap. center based child care is available to families of all income levels with low-income…

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10
Camps for Kids

Camps For Kids' mission is to ensure that no Kansas City-area child is turned away from summer camp because of low income or physical, medical or developmental disability.

Recreation & Sports
11
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
12
Life Christian Academy Inc

Life christian academy provides christian-based care and education for children ages 6 weeks to 5th grade. it is a private, christian preschool and school.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation St Louis; the most unlike its peers is Golf Foundation of Missouri Inc. 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

9 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEALKIDS: $101,000 · Human ServicesSEALKIDSLITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INCUNLIMITED PLAY INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNLIMITED PLAY INCMISSOURI WARRIORS BASEBALL INC: $129,500 · OtherMISSOURI WARRIORS BASEB…GO MINISTRIES INC: $120,800 · ReligionGO MINISTRIES INCUNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $75,000 · HealthUNITED SERVICES FO…MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $25,000 · HealthMERCY HEALTH FOUND…GOLF FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsGOLF FOUN…PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $20,000 · Education
Human Services$201,000Other$129,500Religion$120,800Health$100,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Education$20,000

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 budgetMISSOURI WARRIORS BASEBALL INC: $129,500 over 3y, 59% of budgetGO MINISTRIES INC: $120,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSEALKIDS: $101,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC: $75,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetGOLF FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNLIMITED PLAY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Catch-22 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catch-22 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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