· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of JAMES & ZITA GAVIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $910k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MARIA JOSEPH MANOR | $100,050 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $100,050 |
| BECKET FUND | $100,050 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $915k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $458k · revenue +212%
- VPVOX POPULI MARIAE MEDIATRICI6× · 2020–2025 · $430k · revenue +25% · 49% of their budget
- MMMary's Meals USA Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $402k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN PARISHone grant, 2024 · $101k
- CCCPCI COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICone grant, 2021 · $76k
- LCLUMEN CHRISTI INCone grant, 2022 · $76k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
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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…
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)
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eternal Word Television Network Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 80 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.