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Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

To operate and provide support to community social service programs.

$3.9M
Granted FY2021
5
Itemized grants FY2021
5
Organizations funded FY2021
60%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$803k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$24,863
Largest grant, FY2021
$621,877
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$36M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 60% of the organizations Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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RenewedFirst-time

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

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Food & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20215$803k60%
FY20202$772k100%
FY20192$526k100%
FY20179$552kn/a
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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 2021.

Health$1.1MReligion$535kFood & Nutrition$384kPublic Safety & Disaster$287kInternational$280kEducation$26k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pace Greater New Orleans$1,142,36224%
Catholic Community Foundation Archdiocese of New Orleans$500,0001n/a
Philmat Inc$383,56125%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc$177,00011%
Mary Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church$140,0001n/a
Diocese of Lafayette$75,0001n/a
Catholic Relief Services$40,0001n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe$40,0001n/a
St Marys Residential Training School$26,0001n/a
Religious Sisters of Mercy$24,8631n/a
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All grantees of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pace Greater New Orleans$1,142,36224%
Catholic Community Foundation Archdiocese of New Orleans$500,0001n/a
Philmat Inc$383,56125%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc$177,00011%
Mary Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church$140,0001n/a
Diocese of Lafayette$75,0001n/a
Catholic Relief Services$40,0001n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe$40,0001n/a
St Marys Residential Training School$26,0001n/a
Religious Sisters of Mercy$24,8631n/a
Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church$20,0001n/a
Sisters of Holy Cross$20,0001n/a
St Maria Goretti Church$20,0001n/a
St Katherine Drexel Church$20,0001n/a
Society of the Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Lake Char$15,0001n/a
St Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church$10,0001n/a

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

How much does Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans give?
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans reported 5 itemized grants totaling $803,394, out of $3,938,918 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (43%), Religion (20%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
Who are Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Pace Greater New Orleans ($1.1M), Catholic Community Foundation Archdiocese of New Orleans ($500k), Philmat Inc ($384k).
Does Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans based?
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans is based in LA.

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 16 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 2021, released 2021. 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 $1.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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