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Come to Believe Foundation
To provide higher education institutions with an innovative, results- oriented college model that is inclusive and accessible to students who are often underrepresented at selective universities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $403,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $428,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT | $100,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $50,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $17,500 |
| ST MARY'S COLLEGE | $17,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $15,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $12,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $11,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT3× · 2023–2025 · $669k · revenue +28%
- BUButler University3× · 2023–2025 · $580k · revenue +26%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -16%
- SAST AMBROSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +91%
- CUCANISIUS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +7%
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of St Thomas and the most unlike its peers is Homeboy Industries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
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 MOUNT SAINT VINCENT ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Come to Believe Foundation 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.
- University of Portland — 2% 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.
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