· Public charity
Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe)
The CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 2015 to assist catholic preschools and kindergarten through eighth grade elementary and middle schools in their quest to achieve excellence and increase enrollment.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k128 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROVES ACADEMY | $836,855 |
| PHOENIX SCHOOL COUNCELING | $629,225 |
| BLUUM | $485,241 |
| SAINT JEROME CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $142,850 |
| MATERNITY OF MARY-ST ANDREW CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $129,150 |
| SAINT JOHN SCHOOL OF LITTLE CANADA | $116,500 |
| SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $103,803 |
| URBAN WILDERNESS | $100,000 |
| LEXIA LEARNING SYSTEMS LLC | $91,073 |
| COTTER SCHOOLS - SAINT TERESA'S CAMPUS | $90,123 |
| COMMUNITY OF SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $82,010 |
| BLESSED TRINITY SCHOOL | $81,649 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $80,810 |
| SAINT JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| RISEN CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $74,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 76% 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.
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.
156 repeat relationships — 146 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- AMAVE MARIA ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $318k · revenue +23%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas4× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +47%
- CSCOTTER SCHOOLS3× · 2022–2025 · $128k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UCUNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $238k · revenue +128%
- COCHURCH OF ST JOSEPHone grant, 2017 · $17k
- CRCRISTO REYone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
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.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
Liberty classical academy is an independent private school offering college-preparatory academics and christian faith in the classical tradition for minneapolis-st. paul students in preschool and kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
Guided by Christian faith, St. Therese Academy guides students with Montessori, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and classical principles to live out the gospel message, achieve academic excellence, and joyfulluy lead by faith, virtue and…
Columbia christian schools seeks to provide a christ-centered education focused on excellence in faith, character and academics to students in preschool through 12th grade.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) and the most unlike its peers is United Christian Academy. 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 80 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
12 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. 12 of the 173 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.
Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Two Eagles Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Think Small · The K Foundation · United Way Worldwide · St Agnes Catholic Education Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Communitygiving · Healey Education Foundation Inc · GHR 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 Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) 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.
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