· Public charity
Knights of Columbus Charities USA Inc
Charities usa is operated exclusively for religious, charitable, educational and scientific purposes.
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 22 grants below total $666,858 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,378,653 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $711,795 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 $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $251k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PONTIFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE | $185,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $110,000 |
| BASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $65,000 |
| MINNESOTA KNIGHTS FOUNDATION | $30,932 |
| JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC | $30,000 |
| FLORIDA KOFC CHARITIES INC | $28,583 |
| COLUMBIAN CHARITIES OF MISSOURI INC | $25,498 |
| KOFC CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION | $24,308 |
| TEXAS STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES | $23,429 |
| MARYLAND STATE COUNCIL KOFC CHARITY FUND INC | $22,679 |
| NEW JERSEY COLUMBIAN CHARITIES INC | $14,798 |
| ILLINOIS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC | $13,784 |
| NEW YORK STATE KOFC CHARITIES INC | $12,449 |
| THE BISHOP CHARLES P GRECO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $12,370 |
| MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL CHARITY FUND | $12,312 |
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 (FY17–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of those 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.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $880k · revenue +36%
- HCHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +8%
- OCOHIO CHARITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- AFARCHDIOCESE FOR THE MILITARY SERVICES USAone grant, 2017 · $535k
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2021 · $200k
- MAMOUNT ANGEL ABBEYone grant, 2022 · $46k
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 knights of columbus is an order of catholic gentlemen comitted to the exemplification of charity, unity , fraternity, patriotism, respect for life, and defense of the preisthood.
Catholic religious organization
The mission is to bring financial aid and assistance to the sick, disabled and the needy and their families.
Collection and distribution of donations
Catholic fraternal organization
The knights of columbus provide contributions to st. john catholic church.
Empowering catholic men to live their faith at home, in their parish, at work and in their community.
Promotion of religious beliefs and assistance of the poor, mentally handicapped and elderly and the support of civic functions.
Catholic men dedicated to the principles of charity, unity, fraternity, and patriotism along with the encouragement to those who have chosen a vocation to the religious life.
None
Charitable fraternal organization
To help the poor & youth in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida K of C Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ohio Charity Foundation Inc. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JOHN PAUL II SHRINE AND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds Illinois State Council Knights of Columbus Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA K OF C CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Columbian Charities ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA KNIGHTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds OHIO CHARITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIAN CHARITIES OF MO INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bishop Charles P Greco Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Knights of Columbus Charity Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds K OF C CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIAN CHARITIES OF CT INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Knights of Columbus Charity Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Lamb Foundation of NC Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES FUND 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: Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Knights of Columbus · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Charities USA Inc 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.
- Albertus Magnus College — 6% 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.
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