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Discalced Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$172k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Religion$457kEducation$110kHuman Services$60kPhilanthropy$30k
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$737k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS$62,500
SAINT CLARE'S TAHOE A MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL$50,000
ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE$30,000
BABY STEPS FOUNDATION$29,999
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARCHANGEL ST RAPHAEL HOLY HEALING MINISTRY: $15k → 8%ST JOHN EVANGELIST CHURCH: $225k → 11%ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE: $30k → 12%EL CARMELO RETREAT HOUSE: $60k → 14%ST PIUS X CHURCH: $64k → 14%CASTING NET MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $63k → 7%BABY STEPS FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%HERMITS OF OUR LADY OF MT CARMEL: $60k → 4%SAINT CLARE'S TAHOE A MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $50k → 10%ST MICHAEL CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: $10k → 8%ARCHANGEL ST RAPHAEL HOLY HEALING MINISTRY: $5k → 8%DISCALCED CARMELITE FRIARS OF CALIFORNIAARIZONA PROVINCE: $5k → 14%SAINT CLARE'S TAHOE A MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $30k → 10%ST MICHAEL CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MA
NV
NJ
CA
CO
MD
KS

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$115k · 3 repeat orgs$541k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$115k
$419k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
ReligionEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • SC
    SAINT CLARE'S TAHOE A MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +42%
  • AS
    ARCHANGEL ST RAPHAEL HOLY HEALING MINISTRY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +5%
  • SM
    St Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN EVANGELIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $225k
  • SP
    ST PIUS X CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $64k
  • EC
    EL CARMELO RETREAT HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

4 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOHN EVANGELIST CHURCH — $225,000 · OtherST JOHN EVANGELIST CHURCHST PIUS X CHURCH — $64,000 · OtherST PIUS X CHURCHFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS — $62,500 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSEL CARMELO RETREAT HOUSE — $60,000 · OtherEL CARMELO RETREAT HOUSEHERMITS OF OUR LADY OF MT CARMEL — $60,000 · OtherHERMITS OF OUR LADY OF MT CARMELBABY STEPS FOUNDATION — $29,999 · OtherBABY STEPS FOUNDATION+3 more — $25,000 · OtherSAINT CLARE'S TAHOE A MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $80,000 · EducationSAINT CLARE'S…ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureARCHANGEL ST RAPHAEL HOLY HEALING MINISTRY INC — $20,000 · Religion
Other$526,499Education$80,000Arts & Culture$30,000Religion$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT CLARE'S TAHOE A MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $80,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetARCHANGEL ST RAPHAEL HOLY HEALING MINISTRY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSt Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budget
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 SAINT CLARE'S TAHOE A MOUNTAIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL
  • Who funds ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds ARCHANGEL ST RAPHAEL HOLY HEALING MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds St Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal Inc

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Discalced 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Discalced Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Discalced Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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