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Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inc at a glance

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Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$576k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$402kEducation$352kPublic Benefit$250kReligion$211kRecreation & Sports$105kHealth$35kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $316k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,448
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic University of America$250,000
FADICA$215,765
University of Purdue$100,000
Order of Malta$5,448
Eagle Mountain Bozeman$3,509
Family Promise Bozeman$789
Andean Health Development$100
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundatio$50
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 34% of Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$460k · 7 repeat orgs$800k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +147% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
25

Total granted

$460k
$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+147%
+32%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OO
    Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California
    5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +176%
  • EM
    Eagle Mount
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +147%
  • MC
    MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CI
    CATHOLIC INVESTMENT SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +40%
  • CV
    CATHOLIC VENTURES LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN JOSE
    one grant, 2020 · $71k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

—
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
8
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
9
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Leadership Institute; the most unlike its peers is Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FADICA: $243,644 · OtherFADICAFOUNDATIONS AND DONORS INTERESTED IN CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES (FADICA): $153,500 · OtherFOUNDATIONS AND DONORS INTERESTED IN CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES (F…CATHOLIC VENTURES LLC: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC VENTURES LLCUniversity of Purdue: $100,000 · OtherUniversity of PurdueROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN JOSE: $71,000 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN JOSE+22 more: $43,707 · Other+22 moreTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $250,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AM…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $105,485 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du L…+2 more: $2,000 · EducationCATHOLIC INVESTMENT SERVICES INC: $250,000 · Public BenefitCATHOLIC INVESTMENT …Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $33,846 · Health+3 more: $250 · HealthMARTHA'S KITCHEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesEagle Mount: $4,621 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Religion
Other$711,851Education$357,485Public Benefit$250,000Health$34,096Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$4,621Religion$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC INVESTMENT SERVICES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $105,485 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $33,846 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEagle Mount: $4,621 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $2,277 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlamance Community College Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $206 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY SNO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Yellowstone Club Comm…One Valley Community …National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Yellowstone Club Community FoundationMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Connors Foundation Catholic Activities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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