· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Diocese of Madison-Bless our Priest | $10,000 |
| Chesterton Academy-Queen of Martyrs | $10,000 |
| Sisters of Notre Dame Rsource Dev | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities Inc - Madison | $10,000 |
| WRF Cath Charities Dioc Charlotte | $5,000 |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington | $5,000 |
| Catholic Charities of the Dioc of C | $1,500 |
| Bishop Noll Institute FBO The Band | $1,500 |
| Corpus Christi Church | $1,500 |
| Sacred Heart Parish FBO Educ Angel | $1,500 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society-St Patri | $1,500 |
| Marvins Bin Food Pantry | $1,500 |
| Holy Rosary Parish | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +155%
Funded once
- HCHAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k
- CCCatholic Charities Diocese of Lexinone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SMSt Michael Catholic Churchone grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Catholic charities provides and advocates for the physical, emotional, and social needs of the poor and vulnerable. we focus our attention on people (individuals and families) who live in poverty and are marginalized in other ways. our…
Serve food to families and individuals in need.
The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
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…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Manna of life ministries, inc. is a non-for-profit faith based program dedicated to serving the homeless and destitute. our goal is to address their immediate hunger needs and ultimately, to emplower them to reverse their current situation.
Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance
Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…
"religion that god our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." james 1:27ff (bible) cfs therefore operates for the purpose of…
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…
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Catholic Order of Foresters Welfare and Relief Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Order of Foresters Welfare and Relief Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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