· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
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 14% of Knights of Columbus’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 39%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
91 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. 91 of the 193 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 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 FLORIDA VOTERS AGAINST EXTREMISM INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST INC ↗
- Who funds The Given Institute 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knights of Columbus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knights of Columbus. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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