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Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation at a glance

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Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0171% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$123kEducation$89kPhilanthropy$54kCivil Rights$35kPublic Benefit$30kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$9kSocial Science$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $250
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$10,655
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Duluth Newman Catholic Campus Minis$15,000
RBN Foundation$10,655
Individual grant recipient$250
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 (FY20–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Communio: $5k → 6%Obria Group: $5k → 10%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

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MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
SD
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 16 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +134% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
58

Total granted

$183k
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
+15%

Still filing today

38%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • TA
    THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $51k · revenue +58%
  • EA
    ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +152%
  • TL
    THE LEONINE FORUM INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $26k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOODSON CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -7%
  • PC
    Pontifical Comm Protection of Minor
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CI
    Catholic Information Center
    one grant, 2022 · $14k
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
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

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…

Religion
2
Catholic Answers Inc

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…

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3
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
4
Paulist Press Inc

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…

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5
Priests for Life
Youth Development
6
Collegium Institute

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)

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7
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

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…

Religion
8
Word On Fire Catholic Ministries

Word on fire catholic ministries is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.

Religion
9
Loyola University

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…

Education
10
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co

Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.

Religion
11
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
12
Lumen Christi Institute

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

31 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. 31 of the 78 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pontifical Comm Protection of Minor: $20,000 · OtherPontifical Comm Protection of MinorIndividual grant recipient: $15,071 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDuluth Newman Catholic Campus Minis: $15,000 · OtherDuluth Newman Catholic Campus MinisCatholic Information Center: $13,900 · OtherCatholic Information CenterLegatus: $13,520 · OtherLegatusIndividual grant recipient: $10,250 · OtherAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE US: $7,000 · Other+55 more: $102,759 · Other+55 moreTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $50,655 · EducationTHOMAS AQUINAS…Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $305 · EducationKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyKNIGHTS OF C…THE LEONINE FORUM INC: $26,000 · ReligionTHE LEONINE…RBN FOUNDATION: $10,655 · ReligionRBN FOUNDAT…THE NAPA INSTITUTE: $4,200 · ReligionTHE NAPA IN…+2 more: $1,430 · ReligionLIVE ACTION: $25,000 · Civil RightsStudents for Life of America Inc: $5,000 · Civil RightsActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $2,500 · Civil RightsETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitWOODSON CENTER: $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $250 · Community Improvement
Other$197,500Education$53,460Philanthropy$45,000Religion$42,285Civil Rights$32,500Public Benefit$30,000Community Improvement$20,250

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 budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $50,655 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LEONINE FORUM INC: $26,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRBN FOUNDATION: $10,655 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWitness To Love Marriage Prep Renewal Ministry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE OBRIA GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAPA INSTITUTE: $4,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANTIAGO RETREAT CENTER: $2,699 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGNIFICAT FOUNDATION INC: $2,260 over 1y, 11% of budgetFidelis Sisterhood: $1,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHEOLOGY OF THE BODY FOUNDATION: $1,195 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSACRED HEART RETREAT HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE PERSPECTIVES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAUSE CONNECTION: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAvila Foundation Inc: $130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LUKE PRODUCTIONS INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Knights of Columbus C…Casillas FoundationJohn and Miki Ford Fo…The Catholic Associat…The Community Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…
Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund IncCT21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Casillas Foundation · John and Miki Ford Foundation · The Catholic Association Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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