· Private foundation
Celebrate Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $659k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER | $75,000 |
| MISSION DOLORES ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS CHURCH | $50,000 |
| KINO BORDER INITIATIVE | $45,000 |
| HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM | $40,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| THE BASIC FUND | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $38,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| CRISTO REY- SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| DEAR NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| THE HEALING WELL | $25,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TNTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO8× · 2018–2025 · $430k · revenue +24%
- KBKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $360k · revenue +29%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $334k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- VDVERBUM DEI MISSIONARY FRATERNITYone grant, 2021 · $66k
- RSRITA SEMEL ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $50k
- OOOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern Californiaone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -26%
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.
Cristo Rey Sacramento, rooted in the traditions of the Sisters of Mercy and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) transforms lives by providing a Catholic, college preparatory education and professional work experience to high school students…
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
Proclaim the gospel by embracing a monastic way of life in the spirit of st. benedict and scholastica, the norms of the federation of st. gertrude, and our monastic norms.we are a vibrant community choosing to make a positive difference in…
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services advocacy and community…
The Organization offers transitional housing to Latin American immigrants. Its ministry is based on the practice of solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
St. vincent's is dedicated to strengthening low-income families and seniors through programs rooted in the social teachings of the catholic church. faithful to the charism of the daughters of charity of st. vincent de paul, we serve our…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Establish communities for discernment of Catholic vocations, particularly those to the Priesthood and Religious Life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Family Day Home and the most unlike its peers is Grace Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 74 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.
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds Catholic Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Oakland Elizabeth House ↗
- Who funds DEAR NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
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 Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Outrageous Foundation Inc · Trust Funds Incorporated · Janet and Clint Reilly Family Foundation · Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tua-Main · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sovereign Military Order of Malta Western Association-Usa · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles
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 Celebrate 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 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.