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North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation Inc

Nacepf's educational broadband service ("ebs" 47 cfr 27.1203), formerly termed instructional television fixed service ("itfs" 47 cfr 74.901), provides educational and religious programming and broadband access services to schools, libraries, health, housing and rehabilitation facilities, and other public institutions and nonprofit…

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$17MInternational$4.0MEducation$1.6MHousing & Shelter$520kHuman Services$220kPublic Safety & Disaster$195kReligion$180kHealth$112kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $12,007,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,591,745 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $584,745 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
  • $250k+3 grants · $12M
$150,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY'S MEALS USA INC$10,000,000
BUILDON INC$1,353,000
HOLY FAMILY HOME$250,000
ST PATRICK ACADEMY$150,000
SIMAMA INTERNATIONAL$150,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$60,000
MISSION DOCTORS ASSOCIATION$24,000
RHODE ISLAND STATE RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INC$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EUDIST SERVANTS OF THE 11TH HOUR: $8k → 11%PCS FOR PEOPLE: $70k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST EDWARDS FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER INC: $5k → 14%ST EDWARD'S SOCIAL ACTION: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND & SERVICE: $10k → 14%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

MN
NY
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 12%.

North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 11 repeat orgs$955k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
21

Total granted

$35M
$805k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalEmploymentHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • MM
    Mary's Meals USA Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28M · revenue +159% · 43% of their budget
  • BUILDON INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +55%
  • MD
    Mission Doctors Association
    6× · 2020–2025 · $148k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PATRICK ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $251k
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY HOME
    2× · 2020–2021 · $125k
  • SM
    SAINT MARYS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -30%
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

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.

1
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
2
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
3
Hoboken Charter School

The board of trustees of hoboken charter school is committed to upholding and advancing the school's mission of fostering the academic, artistic, personal, and civic growth of its students through learner-centered practices grounded in a…

Education
4
Carbon Valley Academy

To provide rich content and solid skills instruction in an environment that champions character and personal academic achievement. carbon valley provides a public eduction to students preschool through grade 8.

Education
5
The Childrens School for Child-Centered Education Inc

To inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social and environmental curriculum.

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6
Hynes Charter School Corporation

Public school educational institution

Education
7
Big Sur Charter School

The school designs and implements academically challenging programs tailored to students'individual learning needs. engaging families and community organizations as partners in learning, the school promotes creativity, understanding, and…

Education
8
Urban Discovery Schools

Urban discovery academy develops design thinkers who lead by example, making active, positive contributions to their local and global communities.

Education
9
Stoneleigh-Burnham School

Stoneleigh-burnham school is an academic community that fosters an international perspective. we inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. each student is challenged to discover her best…

Education
10
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
11
Stone Bridge School

The charter school will empower every student to be a lifelong learner with essential skills and knowledge utilizing an educational program inspired by waldorf education methods.

Education
12
Unity Charter School

The unity charter school (ucs) was chartered by the new jersey department of education in january 1997 as the only charter school that had included a planning year prior to its opening. the charter school opened its doors to the first 60…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heights Charter School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marconi Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
37/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mary's Meals USA Inc: $28,000,000 · InternationalMary's Meals USA IncBUILDON INC: $4,210,000 · InternationalBUILDON INCST PATRICK ACADEMY: $1,327,311 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $370,000 · OtherST PATRICK ACADEMY: $251,100 · OtherSIMAMA INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 · OtherMission Doctors Association: $148,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY HOME: $125,000 · Other+10 more: $131,100 · OtherHOLY FAMILY HOME FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN: $750,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $120,470 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $90,850 · EducationPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $12,000 · EducationMARCONI SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · EducationPCS FOR PEOPLE: $70,107 · Human ServicesFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesST EDWARDS FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $10,000 · Human ServicesEUDIST SERVANTS OF THE 11TH HOUR: $7,500 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND STATE RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsRhode Island Coalition of Black Women Inc: $10,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Employment
International$32,210,000Other$2,502,511Housing & Shelter$760,000Education$253,320Human Services$107,607Civil Rights$90,000Employment$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMary's Meals USA Inc: $28,000,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetBUILDON INC: $4,210,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetHOLY FAMILY HOME FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN: $750,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetMission Doctors Association: $148,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $120,470 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $90,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND STATE RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INC: $90,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetPROBLEM PREGNANCY OF PROVIDENCE INC: $27,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST EDWARDS FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCONI SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEUDIST SERVANTS OF THE 11TH HOUR: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

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.

United Way of Rhode I…The Rhode Island Comm…Round It Up America I…The Champlin Foundati…Greater Salina Commun…Ocean State Job Lot C…For Inspiration and R…The Sprouts Healthy C…Project Lead the Way …GenYOUTH IncorporatedAmica Companies Found…Share Our Strength
United Way of Rhode Island IncRI19× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Amica Companies Foundation · Share Our Strength

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 North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Fp YouthOutcry Foundation Inc Dba the Hubb Arts & Trauma Center: 29% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 33 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 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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