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Catholic Community Foundation

CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's mission is to foster faith-based stewardship in the community for spiritual, educational and charitable benefit for all.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$22M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$135MEducation$1.5MReligion$1.2MHousing & Shelter$312kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kCommunity Improvement$102kYouth Development$89kFood & Nutrition$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $697k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
  • $250k+2 grants · $22M
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$224M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECRETARIATS OF CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND$21,749,974
ST JAMES PARISH$250,000
METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL$70,000
THEOLOGY OF THE BODY CLEVELAND$50,000
PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CLEVELAND$50,000
CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE$40,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION$36,000
JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME$33,000
ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
ST BERNADETTE PARISH$30,000
EWTN (ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK)$30,000
CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST$25,353
ZELIE'S HOME$25,000
OLMSTED HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
POOR CLARES OF PERPETUAL ADORATION$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $899k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $10k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $20k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $20k → 10%BLESSING HOUSE: $5k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $20k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $20k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $15k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $217k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $13k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $110k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $36k → 17%THE EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $20k → 17%THE EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $15k → 17%THE EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN: $15k → 17%REFUGEE RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 17%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $33k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $10k → 17%FILL THIS HOUSE INC: $13k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $10k → 17%FILL THIS HOUSE: $10k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $10k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOME: $10k → 17%FILL THIS HOUSE INC: $10k → 17%FILL THIS HOUSE INC: $5k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $50k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $18k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $16k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $10k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $10k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%MAY DUGAN CENTER: $10k → 17%ST HERMAN HOUSE FOCUS CLEVELAND: $7k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $5k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $5k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $28k → 17%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $6k → 17%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
MA
IN
OH
CT
VA
AZ
AL
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138M · 50 repeat orgs$817k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
28

Total granted

$138M
$512k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+86%

Still filing today

64%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $403k · revenue +28%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $118k · revenue +100%
  • NW
    Near Westside MultiService Corp
    7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN MISSION LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $82k
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN JUAN PR
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
West Side Catholic Center

The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.

Human Services
2
Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Inc

Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…

Housing & Shelter
3
Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services
4
Cathedral Center Inc

Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…

Religion
5
St Augustine Manor

St. Augustine Health Ministries continues the healing ministry of Christ by promoting the quality of life and independence of each person entrusted to our care through a continuum of health care and related services to the chronically ill…

Human Services
6
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates

Breaking the cycle of poverty and despair, one life at a time. this is accomplished by working with local churches to provide for the physical and spiritual needs of men, women and children who have lost hope and are least able to meet…

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7
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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8
Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley

To provide social services to those in need, focusing on nine areas: behavioral health, family stabilization & success, guardianship, hispanic outreach, pregnancy & parenting, refugee resettlement, services for older adults, supervised…

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9
Collinwood Neighborhood Catholic Ministries

To respond to the unmet needs of families and individual in the collinwood neighborhood of cleveland, ohio in collaboration with various churches, social service agencies, and neighborhood groups.

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10
Faith Mission Inc

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Housing & Shelter
11
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
12
St Jude House Inc

MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Youth Arts New York 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND HEALTH BENEFIT TRUST AGREEMENT: $133,954,435 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND HEALTH BENEFIT TRUST AGREEMENT+63 more: $2,393,106 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $403,378 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $117,500 · Human ServicesNear Westside MultiService Corp: $110,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS HOME: $73,000 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $69,350 · Human ServicesEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFILL THIS HOUSE INC: $37,500 · Human Services+5 more: $38,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $484,331 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropySaint Martin de Porres High School: $145,000 · EducationPadre Pio Academy: $50,000 · EducationTHE BRIDGE AVENUE SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $15,250 · EducationHOUSE OF CHAMPIONS: $15,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 · EducationAKRON CHESTERTON ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationCATHOLIC MISSION AID: $120,000 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $55,000 · ReligionTHEOLOGY OF THE BODY CLEVELAND: $50,000 · ReligionST PETER THE ROCK MEDIA: $15,000 · ReligionBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $12,500 · ReligionCOMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterZELIE'S HOME: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE METANOIA PROJECT: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterST PAULS COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $30,000 · HealthJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $20,000 · Health
Other$136,347,541Human Services$898,728Philanthropy$494,331Education$285,250Religion$252,500Housing & Shelter$85,000Health$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $484,331 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $403,378 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $145,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC MISSION AID: $120,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $117,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNear Westside MultiService Corp: $110,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $73,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $69,350 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC: $54,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $52,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetEDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPadre Pio Academy: $50,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHEOLOGY OF THE BODY CLEVELAND: $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPOOR CLARES PERPETUAL ADORATION FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE AVENUE SCHOOL: $40,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFILL THIS HOUSE INC: $37,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetHUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetZELIE'S HOME: $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST PAULS COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetOLMSTED HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE COLLABORATIVE TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $22,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYARTS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $15,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST PETER THE ROCK MEDIA: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL SOCIETY OF SVDP CLEVELAND DIOCESE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON CHESTERTON ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDAMASCUS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MISSION AID ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds Near Westside MultiService Corp ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Padre Pio Academy ↗
  • Who funds THEOLOGY OF THE BODY CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds POOR CLARES PERPETUAL ADORATION FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE AVENUE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ↗
  • Who funds FILL THIS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds ZELIE'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Thomas C&Sandra S Sul…Community West Founda…Murphy Family Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…Higley Fund of the Cl…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Reuter FoundationThe Cleveland Clinic …The Nord Family Found…The George Gund Found…Shoes and Clothes for…
The Cleveland FoundationOH63.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan Foundation · Community West Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Reuter Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Nord Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Shoes and Clothes for Kids

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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