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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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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How this is measured
462 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. 462 of the 825 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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