Pennsylvania · Public charity
Catholic Social Services
Family Service Centers: rent/utility & food assistance, benefits access, housing referral family strengthening, pregnancy & parenting support. Afterschool tutoring, social & cultural activities. Subsidized preschool. School social workers. Immigration legal services & refugee assistance
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2021
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $35k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
- Total assets, FY2021
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 40% of the organizations Catholic Social Services funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 5 | $35k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $74k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $208k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $208k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $208k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint John's Hospice | $300,000 | 3 | 4% |
| St Thomas Aquinas Church | $72,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Rocco Parish | $59,976 | 3 | n/a |
| St Agnes | $59,976 | 3 | n/a |
| Blessed Katharine Drexel Church | $54,978 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Hope | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Dawn's Place | $18,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Providence Center | $18,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Mission of St Joan of Arc | $18,000 | 3 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Catholic Social Services
- How much does Catholic Social Services give?
- Catholic Social Services reported 5 itemized grants totaling $35,110, out of $3,761,933 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Catholic Social Services fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (41%), Human Services (37%), Religion (18%).
- Who are Catholic Social Services's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Saint John's Hospice ($300k), St Thomas Aquinas Church ($72k), Saint Rocco Parish ($60k).
- Does Catholic Social Services fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Catholic Social Services?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Catholic Social Services based?
- Catholic Social Services is based in PA.
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