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James & Zita Gavin Foundation at a glance

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James & Zita Gavin 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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$406k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$5.9MEducation$949kInternational$402kHealth$389kHuman Services$368kPublic Benefit$251kPhilanthropy$222kSocial Science$176kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $910k
$100,050
Median grant
16
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANS$405,955
ST CECELIA DOMINICAN CONGREGATION -NASHVILLE$253,492
TURNING POINT USA$250,621
RELEVANT RADIO$247,938
ST JOHN HENRY NEUMAN$198,912
EWTN$197,808
WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES$152,463
DIOCESE OF JOLIET FOR ST ISAAC JOGUES PARISH$151,852
Individual grant recipient$150,995
MARY'S MEALS USA$124,646
LUMEN CHRISTIE INSTITUTE$101,651
DOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION$100,050
BECKET FUND$100,050
MARIA JOSEPH MANOR$100,050
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$100,050
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MARIA JOSEPH MANOR: $100k → 10%DIOCESE OD LA FOR SS PETER & PAUL CHURCH: $75k → 14%DOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION: $101k → 17%BECKET FUND: $100k → 14%ST BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURCH: $100k → 10%ST NORBERT ABBEY: $61k → 11%EWTN: $198k → 16%RELEVANT RADIO INC: $250k → 10%ST CECELIA DOMINICAN CONGREGATION -NASHVILLE: $253k → 14%FOCUS CATHOLIC: $151k → 7%TURNING POINT USA: $251k → 16%VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDITRICI: $73k → 14%DIOCESE OF JOLIET FOR ST ISAAC JOGUES PARISH: $152k → 7%MARY'S MEALS USA: $125k → 16%SISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANS: $406k → 23%ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES - ST PETER AND PAUL CHURCH: $61k → 14%DOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%EWTN: $101k → 16%ST CECELIA DOMINICAN CONGREGATION -NASHVILLE: $152k → 14%VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI: $72k → 14%DIOCESE OF JOLIET FOR ST ISAAC JOGUES SCHOOL (HINSDALE): $75k → 7%MARY'S MEALS USA: $101k → 16%SISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANS: $76k → 23%DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES FOR STS PETER & PAUL CHURCH (WILMINGTON): $61k → 14%COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINIC: $77k → 10%VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDITRICI: $71k → 14%MARY'S MEALS: $75k → 16%SISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANS: $76k → 23%COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINIC: $76k → 10%VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDITRICI: $69k → 14%CPCI COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINIC: $76k → 10%VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDITRICI: $68k → 14%RELEVANT RADIO: $248k → 8%RELEVANT RADIO: $152k → 8%LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $103k → 14%RELEVANT RADIO: $76k → 8%LUMEN CHRISTIE INSTITUTE: $102k → 14%RELEVANT RADIO: $75k → 8%ST JOHN HENRY NEUMAN: $199k → 14%LUMEN CHRISTIE INSTITUTE: $101k → 14%ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN PARISH: $101k → 14%LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $76k → 14%LUMEN CHRISTI: $76k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $101k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $100k → 14%RELEVANT RADIO: $72k → 14%RELEVANT RADIO: $68k → 14%RELEVANT RADIO: $62k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
TN
DC
LA
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 38 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
33

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+29%

Still filing today

26%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $915k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationInternationalSocial ScienceHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LC
    LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $458k · revenue +212%
  • VP
    VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI
    6× · 2020–2025 · $430k · revenue +25% · 49% of their budget
  • MM
    Mary's Meals USA Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $402k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN PARISH
    one grant, 2024 · $101k
  • CC
    CPCI COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $76k
  • LC
    LUMEN CHRISTI INC
    one grant, 2022 · $76k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

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…

Religion
2
The Dynamic Catholic Institute

The dynamic catholic mission is to re-energize the catholic church in america by developing world-class resources that inspire people to rediscover the genius of catholicism.

Religion
3
Catholic Answers Inc

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…

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4
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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5
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
6
Servants of Mary
Religion
7
Ave Maria Communications

Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.

Religion
8
Newman University Inc

We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
9
Spitzer-Magis Center Fka Magis Institute

Magis Center exists to turn the rising tide of unbelief in our culture through contemporary, rational, and science-based evidence. We seek to answer the conflict of science and faith with scientific research and communicate the…

Religion
10
Collegium Institute

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)

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11
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
12
Catholic Film Institute

The specific purpose of Catholic Film Institute is to save souls by making accessible to all the treasury of truths contained in the Deposit of Faith, including the timeless traditions of the Catholic Church, by and through cinema and…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eternal Word Television Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Veil Removed. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 80 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANS: $557,975 · OtherSISTER OF HOLY FAMILY - NEW ORLEANSLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $457,744 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTEST CECELIA DOMINICAN CONGREGATION -NASHVILLE: $405,316 · OtherST CECELIA DOMINICAN CONGREGATION -NASHVILLEDOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION: $327,642 · OtherDOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATIONLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $277,279 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INC: $250,621 · OtherMARIA JOSEPH MANOR: $240,927 · OtherCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC: $210,718 · Other+59 more: $3,411,086 · Other+59 moreIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $1,003,164 · ReligionIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INCVOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI: $430,356 · ReligionVOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRI…ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $340,384 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NE…WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES: $279,002 · ReligionWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINI…+3 more: $70,075 · ReligionMary's Meals USA Inc: $401,749 · InternationalThe Becket Fund: $176,276 · Social ScienceTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $141,361 · Human ServicesSCHOOL OF MARY - MONTESSORI: $25,000 · EducationLINK Unlimited Scholars: $10,000 · EducationVAGABOND MISSIONS: $24,600 · Youth Development
Other$6,139,308Religion$2,122,981International$401,749Social Science$176,276Human Services$141,361Education$35,000Youth Development$24,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $457,744 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetVOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI: $430,356 over 6y, 49% of budgetMary's Meals USA Inc: $401,749 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $340,384 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES: $279,002 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $250,621 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARIA JOSEPH MANOR: $240,927 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC: $210,718 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $176,276 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $141,361 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $26,030 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VEIL REMOVED: $25,518 over 1y, 17% of budgetVAGABOND MISSIONS: $24,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL: $18,527 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI ↗
  • Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIA JOSEPH MANOR ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗

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.

Knights of Columbus C…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…Shell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…
Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund IncCT13.4× affinity4 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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James & Zita Gavin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Zita Gavin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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