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October Saints Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$915kReligion$685kFood & Nutrition$585kHuman Services$435kEducation$323kHealth$260kHousing & Shelter$225kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY$100,000
THE SMILE TRAIN$50,000
CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS$50,000
PROJECT HOPE$50,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$50,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$50,000
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$50,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $15k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $50k → 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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
WY
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 24 repeat orgs$785k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
17

Total granted

$2.9M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+94%

Still filing today

42%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • KB
    KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +106%
  • Feeding America
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +40%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue -14%
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +361%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
2
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
3
Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International
4
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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5
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
6
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
7
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
8
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
9
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
10
Solar Cookers International

The mission of Solar Cookers International is to improve human health, economic well-being, womens empowerment, and the environment by promoting climate-friendly solar cooking for vulnerable populations worldwide.

Environment
11
International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Informed Choices. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA: $335,000 · OtherJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USAKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $280,000 · OtherKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $250,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAABBEY OF THE GENESEE INC: $189,029 · OtherABBEY OF THE GENESEE INCSMILE TRAIN INC: $155,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCARUPE COLLEGE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · OtherARUPE COLLEGE LOYOLA UNIVERSITYCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $95,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY: $89,029 · OtherJESUIT RELIEF SERVICES: $75,462 · OtherJESUIT WEST PROVINCE: $75,000 · Other+19 more: $525,247 · Other+19 moreBread for the World Institute: $200,000 · InternationalBread for the World Instit…CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $150,031 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION B…International Rescue Committee INC: $110,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Commi…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-…United States Association for UNHCR: $100,000 · InternationalUnited States Association …Save The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federati…FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $50,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES U…PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $50,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIE…Feeding America: $250,000 · Food & NutritionGroceries for Seniors: $35,000 · Food & NutritionCOVENANT HOUSE: $225,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropySEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $50,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $15,000 · HealthInformed Choices: $5,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,063 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,193,767International$885,031Food & Nutrition$285,000Human Services$275,000Philanthropy$100,000Health$70,000Crime & Legal$25,063

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 budgetKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $280,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFeeding America: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $200,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $155,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $150,031 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGroceries for Seniors: $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,063 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPax Christi USA: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInformed Choices: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

  • Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Groceries for Seniors ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Pax Christi USA ↗

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.

American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 October Saints Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from October Saints Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 47 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-PF 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home