· Community foundation
National Catholic Community Foundation
To further philanthropy through designated funds.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS | $250,000 |
| PRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION | $235,000 |
| AVE MARIA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $200,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC | $175,000 |
| THE PASSIONISTS OF HOLY CROSS PROVINCE | $159,200 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $92,484 |
| STIGMATINE FATHERS AND BROTHERS INC | $80,000 |
| SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE | $65,000 |
| ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC | $54,346 |
| COMMUNAL FIRST SATURDAYS INC | $30,000 |
| MARIN SAINTS CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL | $23,557 |
| FOCUS - FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS | $22,750 |
| THE TRINITARIANS | $20,280 |
| FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE | $20,000 |
| CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE | $20,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $1.8M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 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 · GLOBAL ACTION FUND AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND, RELIEF WORK, AND VARIOUS EMERGENCY APPEALS . · GRANT TO SUPPORT IMPROVED WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE IN CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE FACILITIES IN ANGOLA, OVERSEEN BY THE ITALIAN-BASED CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION CALLED CUAMM (DOCTORS WITH AFRICA)
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 · TO IMPROVE WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE CONDITIONS IN VARIOUS CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE FACILITIES · SUPPORT FOR TRAINING PROGRAMS, CONSTRUCTION/RENOVATION, AND GENERAL PROGRAMS
Stated purpose: SUPPORT CATHOLIC-RUN MOBILE CLINICS DELIVERING ESSENTIAL HEALTHCARE TO REMOTE AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES
Stated purpose: HELP REPLACE ROOF ON ST. URSULA'S CHURCH IN VIRGIN GORDA
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR CULTURAL PROJECTS THAT THE EMBASSY IS DEVELOPING IN JORDAN
Stated purpose: FUND PRELIMINARY CONSTRUCTION/FOUNDATION WORK
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT OF OPERATIONS AND FUND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS
Stated purpose: TUITION AND OTHER SUPPORT FOR IMPOVERISHED STUDENTS ATTENDING THE SCHOOL
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 +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $577k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PBPRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION NFP3× · 2021–2025 · $825k · revenue +53%
- EWETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC3× · 2022–2025 · $418k · revenue +27%
- FUFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE7× · 2019–2025 · $325k · 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 86 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 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 COMMUNAL FIRST SATURDAYS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT GIANNA BERETTA MOLLA AND PIETRO MOLLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL DOYLE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Gabriel Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF ANNAPOLIS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Catholic Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Catholic Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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