· Public charity
The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque
Multiply charitable resources for maximum benefit to our Catholic community.
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 $10k32 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $947k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $811k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Archdiocese of Dubuque Education | $1,105,479 |
| The Archdiocese of Dubuque | $582,731 |
| Archdiocese of Dubuque Seminarian Education Fund | $391,647 |
| Catholic Charities Foundation | $361,611 |
| Holy Family Church | $127,079 |
| St Thomas Aquinas Church | $118,344 |
| All Saints Church | $99,858 |
| Mount Calvary Cemetery Association | $82,182 |
| St Joseph Church Marion | $79,948 |
| St Patrick Church | $76,381 |
| Basilica of St Francis Xavier | $65,144 |
| Holy Spirit Parish | $55,915 |
| Blessed Sacrament Church | $55,528 |
| St Joseph the Worker Church | $50,383 |
| Cedar Valley Catholic Schools | $44,337 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
71 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE EDUCATION FUND7× · 2019–2025 · $5.0M
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE SEMINARIAN EDUCATION FUND5× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M
Funded once
- CVCEDAR VALLEY CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $17k
- SASt Athanasius Churchone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SPSS PETER & PAUL CHURCH SPRINGBROOK IAone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 97 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: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Heartland Charitable Trust · Burns-Donovan Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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