How much does Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation give?

Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $46,374 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 83 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Public Safety & Disaster (23%), Health (6%).

Who are Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Paradisus Dei Inc ($10k), Children International ($5k), Logan University Inc ($4k).

Does Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrell Family Foundation, Rose & K V Mathew Foundation, The Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation.

Where is Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation based?

Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation is based in IL.

Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation

Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private 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.

$46k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kHealth$10kHuman Services$9kInternational$8kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k78 grants · $36k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$100

Median grant

States reached

$13k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
St Thomas More Catholic Church	$10,320
IL Firefighter's Association Founda	$5,250
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 4-C	$4,200
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 14-	$4,000
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 41-	$2,500
St Edward Central Catholic High Sch	$2,500
Paradisus Dei	$2,020
Diocese of Rockford	$1,200
Children International	$1,089
National Center for Homeopathy	$1,000
Logan University Inc	$1,000
National Vaccine Information Center	$1,000
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc	$740
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$500
Habitat for Humanity International	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$149k · 87 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$149k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

Still filing today

62%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthEnvironmentReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

PD
PARADISUS DEI INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +79%
NC
National Center For Homeopathy
4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +1%
NI
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
3× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +25%

Funded once

ST
St Thomas More Catholc Parish
one grant, 2021 · $9k
VC
Various Charities
one grant, 2020 · $7k
CD
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ROCKFORD
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights

Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International

Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health

Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Abortion Survivors Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 134 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

74/74

Grantees still filing

40/74

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$127,542International$13,925Religion$10,850Health$6,333Education$4,725Food & Nutrition$3,550Human Services$2,910

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.

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.

Farrell Family FoundationCA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · Rose & K V Mathew Foundation · The Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Ebs Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home