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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
The catholic schools foundation changes lives by providing families with demonstrated financial need an opportunity to give thier sons and daughters a quality education, focused on christian values and character formation at catholic schools located throughout the archdiocese of boston, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or gender.
$17M
Granted FY2024
80
Grants
1
Communities
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
counselingelementary
2020
counseling
2021
lowellclassicalscholarship non-scholarshippreparatorynotre damecambridgesaint joseph
2024
scholarship non-scholarshipsciencesnotre damewest roxburyarlingtonmiltonpreparatory
2025
scholarship non-scholarshipsciencesnotre damewest roxburypreparatoryarlingtonmalden
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 80 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $568k
- $50k–250k37 grants · $4.7M
- $250k+19 grants · $11M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$142M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND$1,381,795
- SAINT JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC ACADEMY DORCHESTER$1,274,197
- LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY LAWRENCE$896,160
- TRINITY CATHOLIC ACADEMY BROCKTON$707,150
- OLPH MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL ROXBURY$660,635
- CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL BROCKTON$635,550
- CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL BOSTON$614,509
- LOWELL CATHOLIC SCHOOL LOWELL$586,785
- ARLINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ARLINGTON$467,500
- FONTBONNE ACADEMY MILTON$459,500
- MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL MALDEN$457,850
- SAINT MARY HIGH SCHOOL LYNN$456,530
- CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL LAWRENCE$412,710
- SAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL BRIGHTON$390,390
- IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL REVERE$370,965
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 73% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 74 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else
74 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
74
9
Total granted
$30M
$1.7M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+62%
Still filing today
8%
22%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationReligionArts & CultureOther
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
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL LAWRENCE4× · 2021–2024 · $592k · revenue +33%
LYNCH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY7× · 2018–2024 · $444k · revenue +41%- MCMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY DORCHESTER4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TCTHE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUNDgraduated2× · 2021–2022 · $997k · revenue +53%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL BRIGHTON3× · 2021–2023 · $383k
- TCTHE CAMBRIDGE MATIGNON SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE3× · 2021–2023 · $119k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Boston Latin School Association
The association exists to preserve and support the mission and excellence of the boston latin school, to build and maintain relationships with alumni, to raise funds for these activities
Education
2
Benedict College
Benedict college will be a power for good in society. the college is a full opportunity college with high quality programs of teaching, research, and public service. these programs provide the students and community with knowledge, skills,…
Education
3
Catholic Education Scholarship Trust
Provide scholarships to children in catholic schools listed in the official catholic directory for the archdiocese of chicago.
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4
The Saint Constantine School
To provide classical, christian education so that our students will grow in wisdom, virtue, and joy. the organization is dedicated to providing a comprehensive formation education in harmony with the eastern orthodox christian church.
Education
5
The Collegiate School
See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education
7
The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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8
Harvard College Trust
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9
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College
The mission of mount holyoke college is to provide an intellectually adventurous education in the liberal arts and sciences through academic programs recognized internationally for their excellence and range; to draw students from all…
Education
10
The Cambridge School
Operate a classical school from pre-K through 12th grade education.
Education
11
Massachusetts Higher Education
Provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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12
New England College
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Benedict Classical Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Catholic Community Foundation. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/94
the rest of the field
10%
2,545/25,817
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.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$31,648,310Religion$1,381,795Education$624,937Arts & Culture$14,520
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.
The Catholic Community Fund OfMA57.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Catholic Community Fund Of · Fidelity Foundation · The Flatley Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable · Boston Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Icatholic Media Inc · John A McNeice Jr Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Lynch 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 organisation CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 830400149 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Catholic Schools Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Catholic Schools Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines