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Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation at a glance

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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.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.7MPhilanthropy$300kHousing & Shelter$250kCommunity Improvement$100kCrime & Legal$75kEducation$50kHealth$10kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Institute for Entrepreneurship$100,000
Nashville Predators Foundation$100,000
Ethos National$25,000
San Damiano College For the Trades$25,000
Northridge Preparatory School$10,000
Heartbeat International$5,000
Holy Innocents$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Leadership Roundtable: $50k → 14%Ethos National: $25k → 8%Movie to Movement: $25k → 10%Nashville Predators Foundation: $100k → 14%Institute for Entrepreneurship: $100k → 8%Heartbeat International: $5k → 5%Visitation Parish: $25k → 7%San Damiano College For the Trades: $25k → 11%Volunteers of America: $1k → 14%Leadership Roundtable: $50k → 14%Nashville Predators Foundation: $100k → 14%Lawndale Christian legal Center: $75k → 14%Leadership Roundtable: $25k → 14%Nashville Predators Foundation: $100k → 14%Coalition for Canceled Priests: $15k → 14%SENT Ventures: $100k → 14%Holy Innocents: $5k → 14%Our Lady the Most: $5k → 14%Sunshine Gospel Ministries: $100k → 14%Sunshine Gospel Ministries: $25k → 14%Primo Center for Women and Children: $100k → 14%Primo Center for Women and Children: $100k → 14%Collective Chicago: $50k → 14%Canons Regular of St John Cantius: $100k → 14%Holy Innocents Catholic Church: $23k → 14%Canons Regular of St John Cantius: $10k → 14%Canons Regular of St John Cantius: $5k → 14%Holy Innocents Catholic Church: $3k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $240k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $228k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $200k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $150k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $150k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $100k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $100k → 14%Visitation School: $25k → 14%Fraternite Notre Dame: $50k → 14%Northridge Preparatory School: $15k → 14%Northridge Preparatory School: $10k → 14%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

IL
WI
MI
IN
OH
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$516k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$2.1M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PC
    PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +32%
  • SG
    SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +9%
  • CR
    CANONS REGULAR OF ST JOHN CANTIUS
    3× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • LC
    LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    COLLECTIVE CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -31%
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
Peregrino Hermitage Ltd

Establishment of a diocesan hermitage for prayer and education in the catholic faith.

Religion
2
Mid-America Reformed Seminary

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.

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3
Catholic Leadership Institute

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…

Religion
4
Peregrine Ministries International

The mission of peregrine ministries is to guide and inspire men on their life journey, to help them pass on a life-giving legacy.

Religion
5
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
6
Chicago Embassy Church

To help people find purpose and live on their mission with Jesus.

Religion
7
Inter-Lutheran Theological Seminary

Seminary for students.

Religion
8
International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion
9
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

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.

Religion
10
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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11
Church Transformation Network Inc

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…

Religion
12
Concordia University Chicago

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Roundtable Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRATERNITE NOTRE DAME INC: $1,217,500 · OtherFRATERNITE NOTRE DAME INCSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $125,000 · OtherSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+10 more: $166,000 · Other+10 morePRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $200,000 · EducationPRIMO CENTER FOR W…LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC: $125,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP ROUNDTA…INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENUERSHIP: $100,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR ENTR…NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE PR…CANONS REGULAR OF ST JOHN CANTIUS: $115,000 · ReligionUNFINISHED INC: $25,000 · ReligionCOALITION FOR CANCELED PRIESTS: $15,000 · ReligionLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $75,000 · Crime & LegalCOLLECTIVE CHICAGO: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterETHOS NATIONAL: $25,000 · HealthINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 · Health
Other$1,608,500Education$425,000Philanthropy$300,000Religion$155,000Crime & Legal$75,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Health$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC: $125,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $125,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCANONS REGULAR OF ST JOHN CANTIUS: $115,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLECTIVE CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNorthridge Preparatory School Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSan Damiano College for the Trades: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUNFINISHED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR CANCELED PRIESTS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Polk Bros Foundation …Greater Chicago Food …United Way of Metropo…AbbVie FoundationNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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