· Public charity
Foundations in Faith Inc
Support catholic education, vocation, and seminary education, priests' residence and retirement fund and diocesan ministries and programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $413k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $611k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of Fairfield County | $308,973 |
| Diocese of Bpt - Office of School Superintendent | $290,967 |
| Diocese of Bridgeport - Seminarians | $241,363 |
| Our Lady of Good Counsel Quasi Parish Bridgeport | $136,000 |
| St Charles Borromeo Parish Bridgeport | $117,000 |
| St Peter Parish Bridgeport | $58,600 |
| Catherine Dennis Okeefe Queen of the Clergy Reside | $57,997 |
| St Augustine Cathedral Church Bridgeport | $43,500 |
| St Andrew Parish Bridgeport | $40,900 |
| Diocese of Bridgeport - Nursing Homes Pastoral | $37,450 |
| Diocese of Bridgeport - Vocations | $30,105 |
| Redemptoris Mater Seminary | $30,000 |
| Veritas Catholic Network Inc | $24,000 |
| Blessed Sacrament Parish Bridgeport | $23,400 |
| St Mary Parish Stamford | $23,300 |
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.
33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k went to new ones.
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
- BRBRIDGEPORT ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M
- TCTRINITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2017–2021 · $2.0M
- IHIMMACULATE HIGH SCHOOL5× · 2017–2023 · $440k
Funded once
- BDBRIDGEPORT DIOCESAN SCHOOLS CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $95k
- OLOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $21k
- SMST MICHAELS ARCHANGEL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 49 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.
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: We Stand With Christ Inc · Foundations in Education Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundations in Faith 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.