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Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota
The mission of the CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA is to support financially the spiritual, educational, and social needs of our catholic community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 504 grants below total $43,949,806 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $45,270,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,320,627 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k134 grants · $923k
- $10k–50k255 grants · $5.2M
- $50k–250k89 grants · $8.5M
- $250k+26 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $6,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $4,528,126 |
| WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY | $4,000,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $2,191,706 |
| PRO ECCLESIA SANCTA OF CALIFORNIA | $1,520,000 |
| BETHANY CENTER FOR PRAYER AND RENEWAL INC | $1,264,500 |
| TRINITY WOODS CATHOLIC RETREAT CENTER | $847,250 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $822,022 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $817,244 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS LORD RENEW YOUR CHURCH | $794,500 |
| AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION | $790,027 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS | $613,762 |
| SAINT JOHN VIANNEY SEMINARY | $515,312 |
| DAMASCUS CATHOLIC MISSION CAMPUS (CATHOLIC YOUTH SUMMER CAMP) | $500,000 |
| THE SAINT PAUL SEMINARY | $493,738 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
529 repeat relationships — 374 still active in FY2025, 155 since wound down; 76 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUniversity of St Thomas9× · 2017–2025 · $6.9M · revenue +49%
- MCMN CATHOLIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP3× · 2023–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +409% · 43% of their budget
- CACHESTERTON ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +89% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- 3F30000 Feetone grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue 0% · 44% of their budget
- SHSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
- PCPLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Society of St Vincent Depaul - St Thomas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
462 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 462 of the 825 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds THE RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MN CATHOLIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds 30000 Feet ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PRO ECCLESIA SANCTA OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BASILICA LANDMARK ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHANY CENTER FOR PRAYER AND RENEWAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The K Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Two Eagles Foundation Inc · Hardenbergh Foundation · Kopp Family Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · St Agnes Catholic Education Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.