· Community foundation
National Catholic Community Foundation
To further philanthropy through designated funds.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of National Catholic Community Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Western Pennsylvania And Eastern Ohio, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year National Catholic Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $678k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
The 28 grants below total $677,785 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,463,678 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,785,893 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PASSIONISTS OF HOLY CROSS PROVINCE | $150,400 |
| MICHAEL BOYLE HOUSE | $100,000 |
| STIGMATINE FATHERS AND BROTHERS INC | $75,000 |
| ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC | $35,000 |
| SAINT GIANNA BERETTA MOLLA AND PIETRO MOLLA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $25,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INC | $25,000 |
| ROUNDTABLE ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC DIOCESAN SOCIAL ACTION DIRECTORS | $23,424 |
| FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE | $22,000 |
| CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FOCUS - FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS | $16,000 |
| ST MAXIMILLIAN KOLBE PARISH | $11,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONDELET | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.6M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT OF OPERATIONS · SUPPORT THE PURSUIT OF STATUTORY ACTIVITY AND OF OBJECTIVES OF THE FONDAZIONE, SPREADING CULTURE THROUGH SACRED MUSIC AND THE MUSICAL TRADITIONS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH · GLOBAL ACTION FUND AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND, RELIEF WORK, AND VARIOUS EMERGENCY APPEALS .
Stated purpose: THE GRANT IS RECOMMENDED TO HELP ASEC TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN RELIGIOUS IN AFRICA TO ATTAIN DIPLOMAS OR OTHER ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS THAT WILL EQUIP THE SISTERS TO EXCEL IN THE HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION OR OTHER MINISTRIES OF THEIR CONGREGATIONS · SUPPORT FOR ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER PARISH IN KANGEMI, NAIROBI AND FOR MAZZOLARI TEACHERS COLLEGE, SOUTH SUDAN
Stated purpose: GRANTS TO THE KENYAN CATHOLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO THE WASH PROGRAM (WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE)
Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT
Stated purpose: RELEIF FOR HURRICANE BERYL DAMANGE JULY 2024
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT OF OPERATIONS
Stated purpose: PROPERTY REVOVATION AND OPERATING EXPENSES
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR CHURCH CONSTURCTION
Stated purpose: TUITION AND OTHER SUPPORT FOR IMPOVERISHED STUDENTS ATTENDING THE SCHOOL
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
- PBPRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION NFP2× · 2021–2024 · $590k · revenue +53%
- EWETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC2× · 2022–2023 · $364k · revenue +27%
- FUFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE6× · 2019–2024 · $305k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TATRINITY ACADEMY INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -48%
- MSMARTIN SAINTS CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOLINCone grant, 2021 · $400k
- FBFRANCISCAN BROTHERS OF THE HOLY CROSSone grant, 2022 · $310k
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.
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.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
The mission of the saint elizabeth university, sponsored by the sisters of charity, is to be a community of learning in the catholic liberal arts tradition for students of diverse ages, backgrounds, and cultures. (continued on schedule…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Saint vincent college is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the catholic faith, the heritage of benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. its mission is to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila and the most unlike its peers is Saint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc. 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 34 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 78 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 NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds MARY BRADLEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION NFP ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT GIANNA BERETTA MOLLA AND PIETRO MOLLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNAL FIRST SATURDAYS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL DOYLE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Gabriel Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF ANNAPOLIS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beacon Animal Rescue ↗
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: Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · The Salem Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Gift Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving 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 organization National Catholic Community Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.