· Private foundation
Lynn P Demarco Charitable Foundati0n
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $485k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC SCHOO | $50,000 |
| ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| BISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| SEEDS OF WISDOM | $35,000 |
| ST PAULS OUTREACH | $30,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOSP NURSING SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MN | $30,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIV STUDENT | $30,000 |
| CURE OF ARS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $30,000 |
| THE THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BENEDICTINE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COVENANT NETWORK | $25,000 |
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, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- LLLandmark Legal Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +422%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +105%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM6× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- WUWalsh University Incone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +3%
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $45k
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC SCHone grant, 2022 · $40k
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 International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
Word on fire catholic ministries is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
The mission of the veritas catholic network is to share the truth of the gospel and fullness of the catholic faith by broadcasting faithful and entertaining programs on multiple media platforms including radio, mobile, social networking,…
Readers contribute revenues for being informed about the issues concerning the anglican communion in conjunction with the gospel of our lord jesus christ
Promoting the traditional, pre-1958 roman catholic faith and religion exclusively. this is accomplished by the promulgation of religious and educational materials including (but not limited to) videos, podcasts, and writings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Answers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Landmark Legal Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 83 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 Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds St Raphael Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Landmark Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
- Who funds Living Bread Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLE FORUM ↗
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: Patricia Sweeny Memorial Fund · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Lynn P Demarco Charitable Foundati0n 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.
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.