· Public charity
Eternal Word Television Network Inc
Ewtn global catholic network operates television, radio, and internet media networks from a catholic perspective, producing original programming, inspiring talk shows, entertaining children's animation, exclusive teaching series, live coverage of church events, and thought-provoking documentaries.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $1,008,286 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,631,708 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,623,422 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $297k
- $250k+2 grants · $564k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF THE ETERNAL WORD | $289,444 |
| OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS MONASTERY | $275,000 |
| EWTN NEWS INC | $151,010 |
| NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS | $145,832 |
| YOUNG CATHOLIC PROFESSIONAL | $31,500 |
| PONTIFICAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE | $26,500 |
| NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST | $15,000 |
| OUR LADY OF SOLITUDE MONASTERY | $11,000 |
| SBA PRO LIFE AMERICA | $10,000 |
| TEPEYAC LEADERSHIP | $10,000 |
| MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND | $10,000 |
| RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE FOR THE MILITARY SERVICES USA | $10,000 |
| NAPA LEGAL INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| HER CHOICE | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.4M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICES · FOR SUPPORT OF SUBSIDIARY COMPANY IN GERMANY
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ENEWTN NEWS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6.9M · revenue +34%
- NENATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $500k · revenue +223%
- CDCATHOLIC DISTANCE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $94k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- LLegatusone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- CPCATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA INCone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +9%
- WOWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +14%
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.
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
To equip dedicated Christians in public office with faith formation expert education and a global network of peers and friends
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
The Society for Catholic Liturgy is a multidisciplinary association of Catholic scholars, teachers, pastors, and professionals - including architects and musicians - in the Anglophone world. Founded in 1995, the non-profit Society is…
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Her Choice Birmingham Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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.
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- Who funds TEPEYAC LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA INC ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
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: Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Knights of Columbus · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Halprin Family Foundation B · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · The Catholic Association Foundation · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Ben & Mary Doskocil Family Foundatio · Napa Institute Foundation · Koch Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation
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 Eternal Word Television Network Inc 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.
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