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· Private foundation
JAMES & ZITA GAVIN FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$1.6M
Granted FY2024
28
Grants
14
Communities
$152k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of JAMES & ZITA GAVIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
mariae mediatriciholypregnancy clinic
2021
francis wheatonformed ministrycatholic churchdiocese jolietjoliet formedchristirelevant radio
2022
catholic dioceseholy rosarylumen christipauljohn
2023
archbishop losangeles peterbeckettisaac jogueslos angeleslumen christithomas moore
2024
holy orleanssister holydiocese jolietbaton rougeradio
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 28 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
$51,075
Median grant
14
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
- RELEVANT RADIO$151,824
- ST CECELIA DOMINICAN CONGREGATION -NASHVILLE$151,824
- ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN PARISH$101,449
- MARY'S MEALS USA$101,449
- EWTN$101,449
- LUMEN CHRISTIE INSTITUTE$101,449
- WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES$76,262
- SISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANS$76,262
- SISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANS$75,758
- DIOCESE OF JOLIET FOR ST ISAAC JOGUES SCHOOL (HINSDALE)$75,356
- VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDITRICI$71,084
- DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES FOR STS PETER & PAUL CHURCH (WILMINGTON)$60,870
- CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF ST PADRE PIO$51,400
- ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS LLC (IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO)$51,075
- COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINIC$51,074
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 64% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 28 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
28
35
Total granted
$3.4M
$1.2M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+25%
+628%
Still filing today
21%
6%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionYouth DevelopmentSocial ScienceHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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
- LCLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2023 · $204k · revenue +191%
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR3× · 2022–2024 · $177k · revenue +110%
- VPVOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI2× · 2020–2021 · $149k · revenue +25% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- RRRELEVANT RADIO INCone grant, 2020 · $250k
- CCCPCI COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICone grant, 2021 · $76k
- LCLUMEN CHRISTIone grant, 2022 · $76k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Living His Life Abundantly International
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Religion
2
Paulist Press Inc
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…
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3
Catholics Come Home Inc
Television & radio commercials to invite Catholics to return to the practice of their faith.
Religion
4
Servants of Mary
Religion
5
Catholic Answers Inc
Apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world.
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6
Catholic Investment Services Inc
To promote socially responsible investments for institutions, provide education about socially responsible investing and support educational projects; and sponsor, administer, and/or manage pooled investment funds invested in accordance…
Public Benefit
7
Ave Maria Communications
Ave Maria Communications employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotions and music to demonstrate the good news that Jesus is Lord over all areas of life. Through these means and activities we show that…
Religion
8
Madonna University
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christian humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for diversity, and a commitment to serving others…
Education
9
Our Sunday Visitor Inc
Our sunday visitor produces high-quality and trustworthy resources that are engaged with the contemporary world and faithful to what the catholic church teaches.
Religion
10
Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago
The little sisters of the poor operate st. mary's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in…
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11
Regent University
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
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12
Vss Catholic Communications Inc
Dedicated to answering the call of the late holy father, st. john paul ii, for a new evangelization. our charism in the mission of evangelization is to broadly employ broadcast media to transmit the gospel of jesus christ with the fullness…
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Sisters of the Poor and the most unlike its peers is Immaculate Heart Media Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$4,593,718Religion$678,896Health$177,229International$101,449Social Science$76,226Human Services$40,403Youth Development$24,600Education$5,000
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.
Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund IncCT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Catholic Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Chubb Charitable 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 organisation JAMES & ZITA GAVIN FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~44 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 341916195 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 44 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 45% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to James & Zita Gavin Foundation?
Find your warmest path to James & Zita Gavin Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines