· Public charity
Napa Institute Foundation
To support independent and church-affiliated organizations which promote the teachings of jesus christ in accordance with the magisterium of the roman catholic church; promote priests and professed religious life; and spread the gospel of jesus christ and promote the catholic faith.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $913k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NAPA INSTITUTE | $453,065 |
| NAPA INSTITUTE LEGAL FOUNDATION | $355,000 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $301,000 |
| SAINT KILIAN CHURCH | $171,050 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $150,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY | $150,000 |
| ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER | $120,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PROVIDENCE MISSION HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| SPITZER-MAGIS CENTER | $71,600 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER | $50,000 |
| FOCUS | $30,000 |
| THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| THE OBRIA GROUP INC | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +36%
- TNTHE NAPA INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +150% · 46% of their budget
- NINAPA INSTITUTE LEGAL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue ×77 · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- BSBLESSED STANLEY ROTHER SHRINE INCone grant, 2022 · $125k
- POPERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF THE CHAIR HOLY NATIVITY CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $101k
- CCCHENNAULT COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +519% · 26% of their budget
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.
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.
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
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…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
As a catholic university sponsored by the sisters of divine providence, our lady of the lake university is a community whose members are committed to serve students by: (continued on schedule o).
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 76 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NAPA INSTITUTE LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Spitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute ↗
- Who funds Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE OBRIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sacred Story Institute ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHENNAULT COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International · John and Miki Ford Foundation · Nobbs Family Foundation · Michael T and Stasia a O'Neill Family Charitable Trust · Tim and Steph Busch Family Foundation · Eternal Word Television Network Inc · The Turicchi Family Foundation · The Ben & Mary Doskocil Family Foundatio
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Napa Institute Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Napa Institute Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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