How much does Catholic Education Foundation Inc give?

Catholic Education Foundation Inc reported 56 itemized grants totaling $5,161,390, out of $5,433,231 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Catholic Education Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (32%), Youth Development (0%).

Who are Catholic Education Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Rita School ($2.3M), John Paul II Academy ($1.7M), St Andrew Academy ($1.7M).

Does Catholic Education Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Catholic Education Foundation Inc based?

Catholic Education Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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Kentucky · Public charity

Catholic Education Foundation Inc

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. The foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford the full cost of tuition in catholic elementary schools in central kentucky.

$5.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 56
Itemized grants FY2025: 50
Organizations funded FY2024: 8%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $5.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $80,660
Largest grant, FY2025: $330,864
Organizations funded a year: 48 to 50; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $55M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Catholic Education Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	53	$5.2M	11%
FY2024	50	$4.6M	8%
FY2023	50	$4.6M	4%
FY2022	48	$3.9M	0%
FY2021	49	$3.5M	6%
FY2020	48	$3.4M	0%
FY2019	48	$3.2M	2%
FY2018	48	$3.5M	2%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$24MReligion$11MYouth Development$136k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St Rita School	$2,293,527	9	n/a
John Paul II Academy	$1,730,200	9	n/a
St Andrew Academy	$1,667,818	9	n/a
St Edward School	$1,340,431	9	n/a
Notre Dame Academy	$1,314,352	9	n/a
St James Church	$1,222,196	9	n/a
St Nicholas Academy	$1,186,998	9	n/a
St Gabriel School	$1,177,129	9	n/a
St Martha School	$1,106,101	9	n/a
St Stephen Martyr School	$1,083,623	9	n/a

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All grantees of Catholic Education Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St Rita School	$2,293,527	9	n/a
John Paul II Academy	$1,730,200	9	n/a
St Andrew Academy	$1,667,818	9	n/a
St Edward School	$1,340,431	9	n/a
Notre Dame Academy	$1,314,352	9	n/a
St James Church	$1,222,196	9	n/a
St Nicholas Academy	$1,186,998	9	n/a
St Gabriel School	$1,177,129	9	n/a
St Martha School	$1,106,101	9	n/a
St Stephen Martyr School	$1,083,623	9	n/a
St Bernard School	$1,083,168	8	n/a
St Athanasius Church	$1,082,836	9	n/a
Roman Catholic Bishop of Louisville	$992,201	9	n/a
St Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church & Schoo	$876,396	9	n/a
Spalding University Inc	$847,572	9	0%
Academy of Our Lady of Mercy	$833,540	9	n/a
Holy Cross High School	$826,204	9	n/a
St Paul School	$818,305	9	n/a
Bethlehem High School	$806,790	9	n/a
St Michael Church	$762,585	9	n/a
St Albert the Great School	$749,003	9	n/a
St Joseph Church	$692,413	9	n/a
Sacred Heart Schools Inc	$616,765	9	n/a
Pitt Academy Inc	$611,772	9	7%
Ascension Parish	$606,958	9	n/a
Holy Trinity Church	$601,591	9	n/a
St Francis of Assisi Church	$577,973	9	n/a
St Agnes School	$573,715	9	n/a
St James School	$566,187	9	n/a
Our Lady of Lourdes Church	$487,797	9	n/a
Nativity Academy at Saint Boniface	$465,574	8	5%
St Aloysius School	$447,665	9	n/a
Immaculata Classical Academy Inc	$436,673	9	6%
Corpus Christi Inc	$416,369	9	9%
St Patrick Catholic Church	$414,735	9	n/a
Saint Mary Academy	$382,244	9	n/a
St Gregory School	$334,697	9	n/a
St Margaret Mary School	$308,512	9	n/a
Assumption High School Inc	$299,782	9	n/a
Church of the Holy Spirit	$280,789	9	n/a
St Leonard Church	$264,271	4	n/a
Holy Angels Academy	$259,663	9	4%
St Catherine Academy	$253,535	9	n/a
St Dominic School	$248,015	9	n/a
St Augustine School	$246,465	9	n/a
Trinity High School Inc	$212,018	9	n/a
St Xavier High School Inc	$204,200	9	n/a
Bellarmine University Incorporated	$68,500	3	0%
University of Louisville	$52,000	3	n/a
University of Kentucky	$28,000	2	n/a
Centre College	$17,000	2	0%
University of Louisville	$10,000	1	n/a
Davenport University	$10,000	1	0%
Georgia Institute of Technology	$10,000	1	n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine	$10,000	1	n/a
Clark Atlanta University Inc	$10,000	1	0%
University of California San Francisco	$10,000	1	n/a
William Marsh Rice University	$9,500	1	0%
University of Chicago	$9,500	1	0%
Loyola University of Chicago	$9,500	1	0%
Brescia University Inc	$9,500	1	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$9,000	1	n/a
St Ann Parish Church	$5,020	2	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Catholic Education Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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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.

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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.

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About Catholic Education Foundation Inc

How much does Catholic Education Foundation Inc give?: Catholic Education Foundation Inc reported 56 itemized grants totaling $5,161,390, out of $5,433,231 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Catholic Education Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (32%), Youth Development (0%).
Who are Catholic Education Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Rita School ($2.3M), John Paul II Academy ($1.7M), St Andrew Academy ($1.7M).
Does Catholic Education Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Catholic Education Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
Where is Catholic Education Foundation Inc based?: Catholic Education Foundation Inc is based in KY.