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Catholic Community Foundation of the Archdiocese of Seattle
The st.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE’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 28 grants below total $1,384,136 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,424,416 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,280 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $831k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $188,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $187,796 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $150,000 |
| OPERATION NIGHTWATCH | $100,000 |
| SACRED HEART ENUMCLAW | $100,000 |
| RISE2HOPE | $55,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $50,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF SEATTLE | $40,000 |
| ST JOACHIM | $35,000 |
| ST PIUS X CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| INTERCOMMUNITY PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER | $25,000 |
| SAINT LUKE PRODUCTIONS | $20,000 |
| ST FRANCIS PARISH | $18,200 |
| POPE ST JOHN XXIII STEM ACADEMY | $18,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 13 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k 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
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON2× · 2022–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +14%
- IPINTERCOMMUNITY PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER2× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SPST PAULone grant, 2024 · $80k
- WWWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY NEWMAN CENTERone grant, 2024 · $70k
- SFST FRANCIS XAVIERone grant, 2024 · $62k
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.
To enflame the intellects and spirits of students by integrating rigorous college- preparatory academics, professional work experience, and faith development, empowering students to flourish as scholars and citizens.
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
Inspired by the Gospel values of charity and compassion for all, and in an effort to promote human dignity, the Vancouver Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul provides food, clothing, shelter and other forms of assistance to…
The st. joseph foundation sustains ministries and programs that support the spiritual, educational, and ministry needs of catholics in western washington.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
To finance education costs for students while they gain real-world work experience that strengthens their cognitive and social capital development, catalyzes confidence and aspiration, and prepares them for success in college and careers.
The Josephinum seeks to prepare priests for the new evangelization and to serve the pastoral needs of the Roman Catholic Church. The Josephinum provides resources to prepare candidates for the priesthood. The Josephinum shares its…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of Western Washington and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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 80 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 38 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
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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds RISE2Hope ↗
- Who funds INTERCOMMUNITY PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds THE VIGIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WASHINGTON CATHOLIC CHARISM ↗
- Who funds Pope John Paul II High School ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHSOUND ASSOCIATION FOR CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP MURPHY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION ACROSS BORDERS ↗
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: Frost &Amp Margaret Snyder Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Knights of Columbus Seattle Council No 676 · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 the Archdiocese of Seattle 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.
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest — 38% of income from government
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.
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