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State Council Charities Knights of Columbus
The primary mission of the state council charities is to provide support for the catholic diocesan program.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $327k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $632k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIOCESE OF SAN ANGELO | $180,892 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTONHOUSTON | $139,094 |
| DIOCESE OF AUSTIN | $91,818 |
| DIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO | $83,842 |
| DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH | $68,696 |
| DIOCESE OF DALLAS | $67,864 |
| DIOCESE OF VICTORIA | $44,032 |
| DIOCESE OF CORPUS CHRISTI | $32,946 |
| CATHOLIC ARCHIVES OF TEXAS | $25,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S - BAYTOWN | $25,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| DIOCESE OF BEAUMONT | $24,868 |
| DIOCESE OF BROWNSVILLE | $22,985 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $21,770 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 +88% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON- HOUSTON6× · 2017–2025 · $861k
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF AUSTIN8× · 2017–2025 · $541k
Funded once
- AFARCHDIOCESE FOR THE MILITARY SERVICES USAone grant, 2020 · $61k
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEMone grant, 2017 · $50k
- OLOur Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +9%
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.
3 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. 3 of the 27 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.
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: The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Scanlan Foundation · Igivecatholic · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization State Council Charities Knights of Columbus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from State Council Charities Knights of Columbus. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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