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Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence.

$889k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$453k
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.

Human Services$6.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.4MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$562kCivil Rights$185kReligion$24kPhilanthropy$22kCrime & Legal$9k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $552,527, the rows itemized in this filing. The $888,640 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $336,113 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $453k
$452,527
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES$452,527
CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE$100,000
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 (FY17–22, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LINKSTL: $13k → 21%LINKSTL: $8k → 21%LINKSTL: $5k → 21%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $30k → 21%MARY QUEEN AND MOTHER ASSOCIATION: $21k → 11%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $20k → 21%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $19k → 21%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $13k → 21%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $10k → 21%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $5k → 21%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 90% of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 10%.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louislessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 15 repeat orgs$767k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$12M
$767k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+21%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +80% · 53% of their budget
  • SP
    ST PATRICK CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • QO
    QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $408k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • RP
    RURAL PARISH CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $423k · revenue -26%
  • MO
    MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP RESIDENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +35%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · 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
St Patrick Partnership Center

To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

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2
St Patrick Apartments Inc

Inspired by jesus christ, st patrick apartments, inc. assists cardinal ritter senior services in providing compassionate care through a continuum of high quality residential healthcare and supportive social services. we bring the mission…

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3
Holy Angels Apartments Inc

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence.

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4
Cardinal Ritter Institute Residential Services Corp

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence.

Human Services
5
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.

Human Services
6
Our Lady of Life Apartments

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence.

Human Services
7
Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri Inc

A faith-based organization providing compassionaite, quality social services to the vulnerable.

Human Services
8
Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service

To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…

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9
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
10
Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana in the Roman Catholic Diocese

The mission of catholic charities of southwest louisiana is to be christ's merciful love to those who suffer.our mission is to be carried out by catholic people and others in fraternal goodwill pooling their resources to reach out and…

Human Services
11
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver

As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…

Human Services
12
Peace for Kids

The mission of peace for kids is to provide a comprehensive, quality child development program for a diverse socioeconomic and cultural population. peace for kids is committed to assisting working families with safe, quality child care at…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mother of Perpetual Help Residence Inc; the most unlike its peers is A Red Circle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 31 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7,178,538 · OtherST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICESST PATRICK CENTER: $1,058,329 · OtherST PATRICK CENTERCARDINAL CARBERRY SENIOR LIVING CENTER: $733,250 · OtherCARDINAL CARBERRY SENIOR LIVING CENTERRURAL PARISH CLINIC: $423,221 · Other+15 more: $768,508 · Other+15 moreCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $1,462,311 · HealthCHILD CENTER-MARYGR…QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $407,843 · HealthQUEEN OF PEACE CENT…CARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES: $259,200 · HealthCARDINAL RITTER SEN…ST MARTHA'S HALL: $96,500 · Human ServicesLINKSTL INC: $26,212 · Human ServicesMARY QUEEN AND MOTHER ASSOCIATION: $21,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri: $10,000 · Human ServicesMIDTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $19,500 · Youth DevelopmentA RED CIRCLE: $10,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $9,000 · EducationBEYOND HOUSING INC: $9,813 · Housing & ShelterMissourians to Abolish the Death Penalty: $9,000 · Civil Rights
Other$10,161,846Health$2,129,354Human Services$153,712Youth Development$19,500Education$19,000Housing & Shelter$9,813Civil Rights$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7,178,538 over 9y, 53% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $1,462,311 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $1,058,329 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCARDINAL CARBERRY SENIOR LIVING CENTER: $733,250 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetRURAL PARISH CLINIC: $423,221 over 1y, 14% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $407,843 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES: $259,200 over 2y, 32% of budgetSAINT LOUIS COUNSELING INC: $236,700 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP RESIDENCE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $175,250 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetST MARTHA'S HALL: $96,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetLINKSTL INC: $26,212 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $22,103 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARY QUEEN AND MOTHER ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Louis Inter Faith Committee on Latin America: $19,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetA RED CIRCLE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $9,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMissourians to Abolish the Death Penalty: $9,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $9,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCITY GREENS MARKET INC: $6,300 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 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.

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…Catholic Charities Fo…United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…East Missouri Foundat…Vatterott FoundationNorman J Stupp Founda…Jefferson FoundationRoman Catholic Founda…Moneta Group Charitab…Raskob Foundation for…St Louis Community Fo…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Catholic Charities Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · East Missouri Foundation · Vatterott Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Jefferson Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · St Louis Community 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 Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 31 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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