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Catholic Foundation of Michigan
The CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN inspires charitable giving and assists donors in investing in the future of catholic parishes, schools and nonprofit organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 104 grants below total $6,517,356 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,071,983 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $554,627 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $563,790 |
| MARY'S MANTLE | $501,300 |
| INTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN | $416,867 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $306,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $276,300 |
| THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF LANSING | $241,000 |
| HOLY CROSS MISSION CENTER | $207,500 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $165,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR INC | $150,000 |
| AUSTIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $146,495 |
| ST PAUL ON THE LAKE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $120,000 |
| ST JOHN FISHER CHAPEL UNIVERSITY PARISH | $104,444 |
| FATHER GABRIEL RICHARD HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| STE ANNE DE DETROIT | $79,969 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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 CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN3× · 2022–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +13%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN5× · 2019–2024 · $811k · revenue +6%
- MMMARY'S MANTLE2× · 2022–2024 · $507k · revenue +87% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCone grant, 2023 · $250k
- MOMONASTERY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENTone grant, 2022 · $200k
- EAEast African Children's Fundgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue +302% · 34% of their budget
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.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
The foundation for catholic secondary education exists to financially support education programs of catholic central high school and west catholic high through tuition assistance, faculty enhancement and program/facilities
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.
The school provides scripture classes from a Roman Catholic prospective.
Skilled nursing care for the elderly.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
St. michael academy (sma) is a non-public school that has met the adequacy requirements of the state board of education. the mission of sma is to prepare students for college and for life through the development of the whole person…
An education with a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.
Educate each student in spirit, mind and body by fostering personal excellence within the Catholic tradition.
In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul in the Archdiocese of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Strangers No Longer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 186 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 CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN ↗
- Who funds MARY'S MANTLE ↗
- Who funds ACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF MALTA MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC OF ↗
- Who funds Friends of Chesterton Academy of Detroit ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CABRINI CLINIC ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation · Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust · Pat and Gerry Carroll Charitable Foundation · Thomas and Carol Cracchiolo Foundation · Raymond M & Jane E Cracchiolo Foundation · Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Peter J & Constance M Cracchiolo Fndn
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 Foundation of Michigan 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% 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.