· Private foundation
Catholic Order of Foresters Welfare and Relief Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of Catholic Order of Foresters Welfare and Relief Fund’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Sch | $30,000 |
| Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Par | $15,000 |
| Sisters of Notre Dame Rsource Dev | $10,000 |
| Chesterton Academy-Queen of Martyrs | $10,000 |
| Diocese of Madison-Bless our Priest | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities Inc - Madison | $10,000 |
| WRF Cath Charities Dioc Charlotte | $5,000 |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington | $5,000 |
| St Thomas Parish - St Vincent DePau | $1,500 |
| Corpus Christi Church | $1,500 |
| Catholic Charities of the Dioc of C | $1,500 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society - Rockfo | $1,500 |
| Holy Rosary Parish | $1,500 |
| Central Minnesota together Encounte | $1,500 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society-St Patri | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 49 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
- TMTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +164%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +43%
- AFAID FOR WOMEN INC3× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- HCHAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k
- CCCatholic Charities Diocese of Lexinone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SMSt Michael Catholic Churchone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 44 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 222 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY QUEEN OF MARTYRS INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Waterleaf Women's Center Inc ↗
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: Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Communitygiving · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Celanese Foundation
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 Order of Foresters Welfare and Relief Fund 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.
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.