· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 80 grants below total $17,088,816 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,491,774 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $402,958 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $582k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+23 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC ACADEMY DORCHESTER | $1,274,661 |
| OLPH MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL ROXBURY | $1,074,435 |
| LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY LAWRENCE | $1,001,675 |
| TRINITY CATHOLIC ACADEMY BROCKTON | $737,345 |
| LOWELL CATHOLIC SCHOOL LOWELL | $731,645 |
| CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL BROCKTON | $658,500 |
| SAINT MARY HIGH SCHOOL LYNN | $592,910 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL LAWRENCE | $551,460 |
| CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL BOSTON | $518,714 |
| SAINT MICHAEL SCHOOL LOWELL | $478,875 |
| FONTBONNE ACADEMY MILTON | $466,500 |
| MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL MALDEN | $454,800 |
| ARLINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ARLINGTON | $443,500 |
| SAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL BRIGHTON | $401,765 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL ROSLINDALE | $401,725 |
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 11%, 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.
80 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF LAWRENCE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +11%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +70%- BSBlessed Stephen Bellesini OSA Academy Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TCTHE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue 0%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 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.
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 St Benedict Classical Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
11 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. 11 of the 93 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: The Catholic Community Fund of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Flatley Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · John A McNeice Jr Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc
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 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of Lawrence 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.