How much did KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #4550 grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #4550’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

pregnancyhouston

2019

pregnancyhouston

2020

pregnancyhouston

2021

—

2022

socialmentalissuessanctitypregnancyhouston

2023

valuessanctitymentalhealth issuespregnancyeducationhouston

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $26k
$10k–50k3 grants · $52k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$198k

Total assets

Largest grants

ST JEROME CATHOLIC CHURCH$27,890
ALL OTHERS$14,571
ST JEROME DAY SCHOOL$10,000
HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE$6,000
FOUNDATION FOR LIFE$4,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$3,000
ST MARY'S SEMINARY$3,000
SENIOR ADULT CLUB$3,000
PTSD FOUNDATION OF AM$2,000
SHALOM CENTER$2,000
HELPING A HERO$1,500
OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA$1,362

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$794k · 11 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$794k

$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+31%

Still filing today

73%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsReligionPublic BenefitEducationOther

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

HC
HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE
7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +77%
SM
ST MARY'S SEMINARY
4× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +56%
SV
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHARITIES
6× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +14%

Funded once

SP
ST PHILIP DE JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $25k
SJ
ST JEROME DAY SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $8k
BJ
BRENDA & JOHN DUNCAN YMCAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Catholic Charities of the Texas

Catholic charities of the texas panhandle supports the value and dignity of human life by working to promote self-worth and independence, and strives to meet the ever-changing needs of the community.

Human Services

Society of St Vincent de Paul Tucson

The mission of SSVDP is to promote the spiritual growth of its members through prayer, friendship, and service to others.

Religion

Catholic Medical Center

The heart of Catholic Medical Center is to carry out Christ's healing ministry by offering health, healing, and hope to every individual who seeks our care.

Health

Catholic Health Association of the United States

CHAs mission is to advance the Catholic health ministry of the United States in caring for people and communities.

Health

The Foundation of the Catholic

To financially support the spiritual, educational and social needs of our catholic community.

Religion

Catholic Charities of Central Texas

People of faith serving anyone in need by strengthening families and promoting respect for human dignity and life

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Catholic Charities of the Diocese

To proclaim christs gospel of life and promote human dignity by alleviating poverty and strenghting individuals and families

Human Services

St Peter Catholic

To educate students in Catholic intellectual tradition and prepare them for high demand careers.

Education

The Society of Saint Vincent De Paul Fort Worth Diocesan Council

The Fort Worth District Council provides support to thirteen SVDP conferences in the Fort Worth area, each of which provides person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering, in the tradition of our founder, Blessed Frederic…

Human Services

Catholic Press Association

The mission of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada is to build and strengthen the value, effectiveness, and identity of Catholic media by facilitating the professional development and spiritual growth of our…

Religion

Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of

Dedicated to serving those most in need and advocating for justice in the community

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of and the most unlike its peers is Shalom Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

10/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$750,194Health$31,000Human Services$29,900Civil Rights$21,000Public Benefit$11,000Philanthropy$6,500Religion$2,000Education$1,000

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.

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.

Scanlan FoundationTX15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scanlan Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #4550 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE FOUNDATION FOR LIFE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 741918608 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE FOUNDATION FOR LIFE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Knights of Columbus Council #4550?

Find your warmest path to Knights of Columbus Council #4550 through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #4550

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Knights of Columbus Council #4550?

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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #4550

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Knights of Columbus Council #4550?

More from the funding graph