· Private foundation
Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Institute for Entrepreneurship | $100,000 |
| Nashville Predators Foundation | $100,000 |
| San Damiano College For the Trades | $25,000 |
| Ethos National | $25,000 |
| Northridge Preparatory School | $10,000 |
| Holy Innocents | $5,000 |
| Heartbeat International | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- PCPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +32%
- SGSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +9%
- CRCANONS REGULAR OF ST JOHN CANTIUS3× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $100k
- LCLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue 0%
- CCCOLLECTIVE CHICAGOone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -31%
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.
Establishment of a diocesan hermitage for prayer and education in the catholic faith.
Mid-america reformed seminary seeks to serve the church by preparing students for gospel ministry as pastors, or those whose service to the church may be enhanced by theological education.
Catholic leadership institute provides bishops, priests,religious, deacons and lay persons in the roman catholic church with world-class, pastoral leadership formation and consulting services that strengthen their confidence and competence…
The mission of peregrine ministries is to guide and inspire men on their life journey, to help them pass on a life-giving legacy.
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…
To help people find purpose and live on their mission with Jesus.
Seminary for students.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
CTNs mission is to partner with national churches to economically and effectively train large numbers of Christian leaders in their calling character and ministry competency so that local communities of faith remain biblical faithful and…
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Roundtable Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Entreprenuership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CANONS REGULAR OF ST JOHN CANTIUS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENUERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLECTIVE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Northridge Preparatory School Inc ↗
- Who funds San Damiano College for the Trades ↗
- Who funds UNFINISHED INC ↗
- Who funds ETHOS NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CANCELED PRIESTS ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy 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.
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.