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Loyal and True Foundation at a glance

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Loyal and True 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.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$870kPublic Benefit$100kReligion$40kHuman Services$20kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL$96,000
MARIAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$32,500
KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN$20,000
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
ELYRIA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
SANDUSKY CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL$20,000
NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
MOTHER TERESA ACADEMY$15,000
PADUA FRANCISCAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER GROWTH PART$2,150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 11%ST MARK'S HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 10%CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 16%GIVE BLUE HOPE: $100k → 6%LANCASTER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 9%DUBOIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC: $30k → 12%MARIAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $33k → 12%KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 13%ERIE FIRST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 15%ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 13%SANDUSKY CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $20k → 11%ELYRIA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 13%JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 16%PADUA FRANCISCAN HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 17%ST JOHN SCHOOL: $32k → 17%CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DUBOIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC: $10k → 12%KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 13%ERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER GROWTH PART: $2k → 15%PADUA FRANCISCAN HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 17%ST JOHN SCHOOL: $20k → 17%KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 13%GERTRUDE BARBER CENTER: $1k → 15%PADUA FRANCISCAN HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 17%KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 13%ST MARK'S SEMINARY: $25k → 15%PADUA FRANCISCAN HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 17%MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN: $20k → 15%CLEVELAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCH: $25k → 17%MERCYHURST PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 15%ERIE CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS: $20k → 15%CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $100k → 15%CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $96k → 15%CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $86k → 15%CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $48k → 15%MOTHER TERESA ACADEMY: $15k → 15%BETHEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 15%LUTHER MEMORIAL ACADEMY: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NE
DE
AZ
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$625k · 5 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$625k
$274k

Still filing today

0%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CP
    CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $330k
  • KC
    KENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $175k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $52k

Funded once

  • GB
    GIVE BLUE HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • SM
    ST MARK'S HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • CH
    CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
0/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $330,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLKENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $175,000 · OtherKENNEDY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLST JOHN SCHOOL: $52,000 · OtherST JOHN SCHOOLDUBOIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC: $40,000 · OtherMARIAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $32,500 · Other+20 more: $328,150 · Other+20 moreGIVE BLUE HOPE: $100,000 · Public BenefitGIVE BLUE …CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$957,650Public Benefit$100,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 GIVE BLUE HOPE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Raymond James Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Loyal and True Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Loyal and True Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Loyal and True Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Loyal and True Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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