· Public charity
Knights of Columbus
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS is a catholic fraternal organization dedicated to promoting and conducting educational, charitable, religious and social welfare works, rendering mutual aid and assistance to sick and needy members and their families and providing insurance products and annuities to benefit members, wives and children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 56 grants below total $23,261,141 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $32,596,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,334,952 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $577k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+11 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC | $7,900,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC | $3,500,671 |
| JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC | $2,800,000 |
| THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC | $2,125,000 |
| UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS | $1,388,057 |
| MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND | $825,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES USA INC | $503,114 |
| FLORIDA VOTERS AGAINST EXTREMISM | $500,000 |
| RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE | $360,000 |
| BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES | $325,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD | $250,000 |
| BASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $248,031 |
| FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT | $201,000 |
| ST MICHAEL CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL INC | $200,000 |
| NOGFORSD | $200,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Grants abroad, by region — $4.5M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT VARIOUS PROGRAMS · SUPPORT OF WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY · SPONSORSHIP OF VATICAN CONFERENCE ON VOCATIONS
Stated purpose: SUPPORT VARIOUS PROGRAMS · SUPPORT OF CANADIAN MARCH FOR LIFE · SUPPORT MASTER PLAN FOR NEW FACILITIES AND VARIOUS PROGRAMS
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES · SUPPORT VARIOUS PROGRAMS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Knights of Columbus’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 39% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +10%
- TKTHE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +6% · 98% of their budget
- MFMARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +25% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- CAConservative Agenda for Americaone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2022 · $450k
- SOSISTERS OF THE COMPANY OF THE SAVIOURone grant, 2023 · $391k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Windrider Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 193 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 JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
- Who funds St Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Conservative Agenda for America ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds National Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA VOTERS AGAINST EXTREMISM INC ↗
- Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST INC ↗
- Who funds The Given Institute Inc ↗
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: Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Koch Foundation Inc · Igivecatholic · Eternal Word Television Network Inc · The Turicchi Family Foundation · The Catholic Association Foundation · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · Knights of Columbus Charities USA Inc · Somos Healthcare Providers 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 Knights of Columbus 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
- Albertus Magnus College — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
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.