· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 93 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
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.
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Catholic Schools Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Schools Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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