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The Catholic Foundation No Colorado

The foundation is called by jesus christ: to promote the mission of the church in northern colorado by encouraging financial stewardship; to faithfully steward and distribute funds entrusted to the foundation; and to cooperate with parishes and other catholic organizations to develop additional resources and support.

$25M
Granted FY2024still arriving
196
Grants FY2024still arriving
30
States reached
$5.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$65MEducation$28MHuman Services$8.9MHealth$3.4MCivil Rights$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$853kArts & Culture$703kPhilanthropy$629kOther$0
02FY2024 · 196 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 196 grants below total $24,102,025, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,779,563 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $677,538 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $232k
  • $10k–50k101 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+14 grants · $17M
$20,000
Median grant
30
States reached
$212M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Augustine Institute$5,252,450
St John Paul II High School$4,697,000
St John Vianney Theological Seminary$2,371,940
SJV-RM$1,384,147
Redemptoris Mater Seminary$637,343
AOD - Archbishop Catholic Appeal$416,491
Society of St Vincent de Paul - AOD$390,500
St Anthony Catholic Church$380,000
Our Lady of Lourdes Classical School$378,779
FOCUS Mission Foundation$352,500
St Rose of Lima Catholic School$310,000
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts$300,000
Central Denver Classical HS (St John Paul the Great)$298,500
The Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty$258,500
The Papal Foundation$190,000
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, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Eden Invitation: $25k → 17%Sister Stans Children Inc: $30k → 14%A Precious Child Inc: $50k → 5%Catholic Charities - Western Slope: $113k → 8%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orlea: $70k → 23%A Precious Child Inc: $44k → 5%Communio: $105k → 6%A Precious Child Inc: $44k → 5%Catholic Charities - Western Slope: $50k → 8%Communio: $75k → 6%Catholic Charities - Western Slope: $41k → 8%Marriage Missionaries: $22k → 3%Catholic Charities - Western Slope: $40k → 8%A Precious Child Inc: $25k → 5%Avodah: $38k → 8%Families of Character: $152k → 8%Families of Character: $82k → 8%Families of Character: $73k → 8%Families of Character: $45k → 8%Families of Character: $25k → 8%Families of Character: $24k → 8%Families of Character: $106k → 8%Catholic Charities & Community Services: $744k → 12%Catholic Charities - Shelters: $661k → 12%Catholic Charities - Shelters: $624k → 12%Catholic Charities & Community Services: $314k → 12%Catholic Charities - Shelters: $286k → 12%Catholic Charities & Community Services: $240k → 12%Catholic Charities - Shelters: $184k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Health: $179k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Health: $148k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Health: $144k → 12%Catholic Charities - Shelters: $142k → 12%Catholic Charities - Shelters: $119k → 12%Catholic Charities & Community Services: $102k → 12%Catholic Charities - Shelters: $98k → 12%Catholic Charities & Community Services: $98k → 12%Catholic Charities - Samaritan House: $89k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Health: $85k → 12%Catholic Charities & Community Services: $81k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Health: $78k → 12%Catholic Charities & Community Services: $76k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Home: $53k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Health: $43k → 12%Catholic Charities of Denver: $38k → 12%Catholic Charities - Marisol Home: $38k → 12%Catholic Charities - Saint Raphael Counseling: $25k → 12%Catholic Charities of Denver: $23k → 12%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

NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106M · 174 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

174 repeat relationships: 124 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

174
67

Total granted

$106M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+22%

Still filing today

37%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $762k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • Augustine Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +321%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +57%
  • WC
    Wyoming Catholic College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Catholic Alliance
    one grant, 2017 · $1.2M
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF HELENA MONTANA A CORPORATION SOLE
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • SO
    SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +27%
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.

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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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2
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
3
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
4
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
5
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
6
Avila University

Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…

Education
7
The Catholic Foundation No Colorado

The foundation is called by jesus christ: to promote the mission of the church in northern colorado by encouraging financial stewardship; to faithfully steward and distribute funds entrusted to the foundation; and to cooperate with…

Religion
8
Ave Maria University Inc

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

Education
9
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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10
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
11
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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12
Catholic Charities Bloomington Inc

Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…

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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 The Vine Foundation. 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

143 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. 143 of the 292 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/143
Grantees still filing
97/143
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $17,233,058 · OtherSAINT JOHN VIANNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $6,211,753 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF DENVERST JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $5,789,000 · OtherST JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOLCENTRAL DENVER CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL: $4,668,500 · OtherCENTRAL DENVER CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOLCAPUCHIN PROVINCE OF MID-AMERICA MISSION FUND: $4,323,868 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $4,133,045 · OtherREDEMPTORIS MATER HOUSE OF FORMATION: $3,773,605 · Other+130 more: $37,069,295 · Other+130 moreAugustine Institute Inc: $7,163,876 · EducationAugustine Ins…Wyoming Catholic College: $1,593,250 · EducationWyoming Catho…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $1,216,500 · EducationALLIANCE FOR …The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Inc: $975,000 · EducationThe Thomas Mo…Benedictine College: $575,000 · EducationRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $475,000 · Education+10 more: $908,616 · Education+10 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $5,682,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $540,300 · Human Services+10 more: $744,453 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC LAITY AND CLERGY FOR RENEWAL INC: $981,000 · ReligionChrist in the City: $675,350 · ReligionASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE: $316,427 · ReligionJohn Paul II Adventure Institute: $252,784 · ReligionTHE VINE FOUNDATION: $225,500 · ReligionSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $200,000 · ReligionReal Life Catholic: $153,200 · Religion+17 more: $882,543 · ReligionThe Becket Fund: $1,103,000 · Social ScienceENDOW: $288,862 · Social ScienceDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $709,250 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $375,000 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $219,756 · HealthTHE MARTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $448,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $84,000 · PhilanthropyZarlengo Foundation: $51,300 · PhilanthropyHAVEN OF HOPE: $42,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $24,500 · Philanthropy
Other$83,202,124Education$12,907,242Human Services$6,967,253Religion$3,686,804Social Science$1,391,862Health$1,304,006Philanthropy$749,800

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $7,163,876 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $5,682,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetWyoming Catholic College: $1,593,250 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF DENVER: $1,478,605 over 4y, 100% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $1,216,988 over 8y, 63% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $1,216,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $1,103,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCATHOLIC LAITY AND CLERGY FOR RENEWAL INC: $981,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetThe Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Inc: $975,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $709,250 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetChrist in the City: $675,350 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $575,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBELLA NATURAL WOMEN'S CARE: $550,150 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetFAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $540,300 over 8y, 56% of budgetWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $514,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $475,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetTHE MARTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $448,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $396,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $375,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE SPITZER CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: $327,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF APOSTOLATE: $316,427 over 7y, 18% of budgetENDOW: $288,862 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetJohn Paul II Adventure Institute: $252,784 over 8y, 13% of budgetStand Together Foundation: $245,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VINE FOUNDATION: $225,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $219,756 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $173,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFIRE FOUNDATION OF DENVER: $154,403 over 3y, 61% of budgetReal Life Catholic: $153,200 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPATRIS CORDE HERMITAGE: $113,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetJM EDUCATIONAL GROUP: $112,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetDIOCESE OF COLORADO SPRINGS SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $106,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMARRIAGE MISSIONARIES: $102,750 over 7y, 11% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $80,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES: $77,620 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $71,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLANTERI CENTER FOR IGNATIAN SPIRIT: $71,600 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $70,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH AND REASON: $70,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMARISOL HEALTH INC: $61,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZarlengo Foundation: $51,300 over 5y, 5.0% 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.

  • Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds The Catholic Alliance ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC LAITY AND CLERGY FOR RENEWAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Christ in the City ↗
  • Who funds Benedictine College ↗
  • Who funds BELLA NATURAL WOMEN'S CARE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES OF CHARACTER ↗

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.

Seeds of Hope of Nort…The Martin Family Fou…Daniels FundSaeman Family Foundat…Knights of Columbus C…Colorado Gives Founda…Ztyl FoundationKnights of ColumbusFire Foundation of De…Considine Family Foun…Pema Foundation IncThe Denver Foundation
Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado IncCO75.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado Inc · The Martin Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ztyl Foundation · Knights of Columbus · Fire Foundation of Denver · Considine Family Foundation · Pema Foundation Inc · The Denver 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 The Catholic Foundation No Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catholic Foundation No Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 292 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 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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