· Private foundation
Honora M Cullinan 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| FRANCISCAN CONNECTION | $60,000 |
| GENERAL MINISTER OF THE FRANCISCAN ORDER | $52,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $35,000 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA PARISH | $35,000 |
| THOMAS TERRY COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| SISTER THEA BHOWMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $25,000 |
| LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S HOME LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $10,000 |
| MORNINGSTART MISSION MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
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, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Honora M Cullinan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 28%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFThe Franciscan Connection7× · 2019–2025 · $299k · revenue +157% · 29% of their budget
- CCCHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND8× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +4%
- LFLOAVES & FISHES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +53% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- GAGENERAL ADMIN OF THE FRANCISCAN ORDone grant, 2018 · $50k
- FOFRANCISEAN OUTREACH ASSOCIone grant, 2018 · $40k
- CSCUSTODY SAINT BENEDICT OF THE AMAZON2× · 2024–2025 · $28k
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.
To provide temporary housing and care
Educational, religious and living assistance services for senior citizens
The center serves the under-served and persons with disabilities by partnering with donors, area churchs, foundations, and agencies to provide food, clothing, home repairs, assistance with utility and prescription apyments, and access to…
Assisting poor and homeless with accessing public benefits job readiness counseling job referrals and housing referrals mail drop and Pope Francis Center Ids
Serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an intentional, faith-based community.
The franciscan center, inc., a ministry of the sisterts of st. francis assisi of milwaukee franciscan centers, is a multi-faceted emergency outreach agency serving the poor and homelesss of baltimore regardless of age, race, creed,…
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Provide food and shelter to 16 homeless men at no cost to them while they transition onto independent living. Provide free soup kitchen to all who choose to come to our door.
Provide assistance to local community
To perform the works of mercy in response to the call of god. our corporal works of mercy performed primarily include providing food, clothing, shelter, and prison ministry. our spiritual works of mercy performed primarily include…
The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 24 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 The Franciscan Connection ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCANS FOR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC URBAN PROGRAMS NFP ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Honora M Cullinan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honora M Cullinan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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