· Public charity
Focolare Foundation
The Focolare Foundation serves as a catalyst for change, providing financial support, resources, expertise, and capacity-building to empower communities and organizations while amplifying the impact of grassroots initiatives.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $331k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Focolare Movement Womens Branch East Coast Work Of Mary | $5,022,713 |
| Focolare Media | $250,977 |
| Focolare Movement Mariapolis Luminosa Work of Mary | $178,227 |
| Focolare Movement Mens Branch | $152,830 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $1.6M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: The ongoing conflict across the Middle East continues to bring devastating suffering to countless families who want nothing more than peace and a safe place to call home. The Focolare Movement, with communities present in many of the affected areas, is renewing its commitment at every level - from emergency aid for the most vulnerable, deprived of basic necessities and living in constant fear, to active solidarity initiatives on the ground. We are renewing our appeal for your support to help the thousands of families who have been forced to flee. Many have lost everything; others have found temporary shelter in facilities stretched beyond their limits. We want to remain close to those who are suffering and stand alongside the local communities offering refuge and practical help. Every contribution makes a difference and allows us to build together a future of hope and reconstruction. Join us in this commitment: peace is also built this way, by choosing not to look the other way. · The International Center for Unity and Peace is planned as a multi-purpose structure suitable for hosting various local and international events and initiatives. An essential and important part of the project is the surrounding open space where rest areas will alternate with green zones, thus facilitating socializing and interactive activities. The objectives of the project are: to create a space for meetings and prayer among Christians of various Churches; to promote respect, tolerance and the capacity to live together by furthering mutual knowledge and dialogue among the faithful of varying religions; to offer a space for study and research in the intercultural, ecumenical and interreligious fields; to offer exchange meetings, courses of formation and volunteer activities on international and local levels for young adults and teenagers; to provide for Christian youth opportunities for vocational discernment; to offer meetings and formation courses in the field of peace education.
Stated purpose: A project of the New Families section of the Focolare Movement, Supporting Children at a Distance is a way for a donor to support a specific needy child while the child remains in the child's own country, usually among extended family. With more than 100 active projects in 50 countries, Supporting Children at a Distance provides food programs, medical care, child care centers, after school care and other opportunities for growth and development of these children 'supported at a distance.'
Stated purpose: The Focolare Movement's Emergency Coordination Committee is directing our support to the people of Ukraine through Caritas Spes, a charitable mission of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine. Through their operation centers and some diocesan centers, they coordinate and continuously revise the logistics for the delivery of aid. So far, the funds raised throughout the world have been used to support the internally displaced people with housing and basic needs.
Stated purpose: Support in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Café con Leche (coffee with milk) is a school founded in 1990 by Focolare member Marisol Jimenez to serve the children of the poverty-stricken neighborhood of Herrera in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The school serves more than 500 students, teaching everything from basic literacy to workplace skills. Established in 2008, PACNE (Action contre la pauvreté du nord-est - Association against poverty in the North-East) is an official non-profit organization in Haiti directed by the members of the Focolare from different branches. The work of PACNE in the Mont-Organisé region includes schools, housing for the poor, and projects to sponsor children in need.
How this is measured
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 4 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Focolare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Focolare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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