· Public charity
The Catholic Community Fund of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc
To develop institutional support, both by way of raising funds for endowment and other sources of financial support, in order to advance the ministries and programs of the archdiocese of boston (the "archdiocese"), and to receive gifts and bequests, whether restricted or unrestricted, endowment or non-endowment, and to manage and expend…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $860k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+11 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGINA CLERI RESIDENCE DISTRIBUTIONS & LOAN PAYMENT TO RCAB | $1,286,474 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE | $1,237,889 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU - BOSTON | $570,487 |
| SAINT MARY'S CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $400,000 |
| CLERGY HEALTH & RETIREMENT TRUST | $395,265 |
| SOUTH BOSTON CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $362,691 |
| CATHEDRAL LOAN PAYMENT TO RCAB | $358,000 |
| LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $326,873 |
| ST CECILIA PARISH BOSTON | $301,818 |
| INSPIRING HOPE ST CATHERINE NORWOOD (302) | $291,595 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE | $261,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE SACRED HEART PARISH HANOVER | $244,355 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE | $225,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE | $200,000 |
| SMCWC CROSSROADS HOUSING INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF BOSTON A CORPORATION SOLE5× · 2019–2023 · $22M
- SCSUFFOLK CONSTRUCTION3× · 2019–2021 · $12M
CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC5× · 2019–2023 · $6.1M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISHone grant, 2020 · $340k
- BLBAKER LITURGICAL ART LLCone grant, 2019 · $319k
- OLOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $312k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 136 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: Catholic Schools Foundation Inc · The Flatley Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · John A McNeice Jr Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Catholic Community Fund of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catholic Community Fund of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
- Smcwc - Crossroads Housing Inc Crossroads Shelter: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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