· Public charity
Catholic Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc
Catholic foundation of eastern pennsylvania, inc., is a pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, organized and operated for religious, charitable and educational purposes described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC’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 19 grants below total $449,497 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $581,451 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $131,954 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 $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST THOMAS MORE PARISH | $61,219 |
| EASTERN PA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $58,525 |
| SACRED HEART PARISH | $47,872 |
| ST JOSEPH THE WORKER PARISH | $41,921 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $39,661 |
| ST ANNE PARISH | $31,263 |
| ST JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL PARISH | $29,240 |
| ST PETER PARISH | $25,478 |
| MERCY SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL LEARNING | $21,528 |
| HOLY TRINITY PARISH | $17,000 |
| MERCY SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL LEARNING | $15,801 |
| NATIVITY HIGH SCHOOL | $12,252 |
| ST JOSEPH THE WORKER PARISH | $9,110 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY SCHOOL | $8,140 |
| DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN | $7,414 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Catholic Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 41% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
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
- STST THOMAS MORE SCHOOL EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND2× · 2021–2022 · $123k
- EPEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST2× · 2019–2020 · $122k
- SJST JOSEPH THE WORKER - ANGEL SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT2× · 2021–2022 · $109k
Funded once
- TETHE EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $138k
- ACALLENTOWN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $62k
- BCBETHLEHEM CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $61k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
2 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. 2 of the 41 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.
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.
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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.
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