· Private foundation
Esperanza 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $416k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $238k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mary Star of the Sea High School | $138,150 |
| University of Mary | $50,000 |
| Archdiocese of San Francisco | $50,000 |
| Stella Maris Academy | $45,000 |
| Epiphany School | $45,000 |
| MARY STAR OF THE SEA CATHOLIC CHURC | $31,000 |
| Notre Dame High School | $25,000 |
| Ave Maria University | $25,000 |
| Harbor Academy | $25,000 |
| St John Fisher Parish School | $20,000 |
| Ste Marie du Lac Catholic Parish | $20,000 |
| Thomas Aquinas College | $20,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $15,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $15,000 |
| St John Fisher Catholic Church | $10,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Mary5× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +17%
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +573%
- CNCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- AFAbuelitos Foundationone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SJSt Joseph's Roman Catholic Churchone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SPSS Peter and Paul Churchone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
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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…
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Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 91 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS ANGELITOS ↗
- Who funds 1990 LOS CRUSADOS COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds DON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 966 ↗
- Who funds Abuelitos Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Louise M Davies Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Sempra Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Esperanza Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esperanza Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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