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The Catholic Foundation of Central Florida Inc

Encourage selfless stewardship, safeguard and promote accountability of the gifts entrusted to our care, and engage donors in support of the spiritual, educational and social needs of the community.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$310k
Largest
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 2025.

Religion$3.6MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$541kHealth$16kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $1,051,942, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,334,993 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $283,051 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
  • $250k+2 grants · $565k
$13,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$140M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary Queen of the Universe$310,275
Diocese of Orlando$254,623
Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc$159,036
St Joseph Catholic School$53,455
Holy Spirit Catholic Church Lake Wales$47,286
Prince of Peace Catholic Church$25,500
Resurrection Catholic Church$25,000
Cristo Rey Orlando High School$25,000
St Brendan Catholic Church$23,000
St Mary Catholic Church$17,592
St Margaret Mary Catholic Church$16,400
St Philip Phan Van Minh Catholic Church$13,000
Providence College$10,000
St James Catholic Cathedral$10,000
Society of St Vincent de Paul - St Ann Conference$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $981k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Waterleaf Womens Clinic: $6k → 7%Waterleaf Women's Clinic: $5k → 7%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $159k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida: $142k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $128k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $107k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $106k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $105k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $94k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $73k → 13%Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: $52k → 13%Central Florida Diaper Bank Inc: $5k → 13%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 18 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$5.3M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
0%

Still filing today

17%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $965k · revenue +2%
  • CL
    CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +79%
  • WW
    Waterleaf Women's Center Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2019 · $31k
  • SP
    ST PAULS OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • CR
    CRISTO REY NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -31%
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
Cristo Rey Orange County High School Inc

The cristo rey network of high schools delivers a career focused, college preparatory education in the catholic tradition for students with limited economic resources, uniquely integrating rigorous academic curricula with four years of…

Education
2
Ave Maria University Inc

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

Education
3
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
4
Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida

Catholic charities carries out the social mission of the catholic church in northwest florida to serve, empower, and advocate for vulnerable families and individuals of any race, religion, or national origin.

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5
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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6
Trinity College of Florida Inc

The vision of Trinity College of Florida is to be the premier provider of a multifaceted and diversified higher learning four-year college which cultivates spiritual disciplines such as scripture study and directing learning toward what is…

Education
7
St Carlo Acutis Virtual Academy Inc

The organization is an online sacs accredited catholic school (k-12).

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8
Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops Inc

To serve as a liaison to state government on matters of concern to the catholic church in the seven dioceses of the province of miami as a nonpartisan public policy voice on behalf of the catholic bishops of florida.

Public Benefit
9
Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Hope

Inspired by the catholic faith, chesterton academy seeks to form young student to be joyful saints. by introducing them to great thinkers and by forming them in a distinctly catholic culture, we lead students to choose for themselves the…

Education
10
Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio

As a catholic university sponsored by the sisters of divine providence, our lady of the lake university is a community whose members are committed to serve students by: (continued on schedule o).

Education
11
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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12
Catholic Charities Housing Diocese of Venice Inc

Catholic charities housing, diocese of venice, inc. was formed as a not-for-profit corporation under the laws of the state of florida in august 2003, for the purposes of providing a residential program for men living with hiv and who are…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Waterleaf Women's Center Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 45 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Diocese of Orlando: $2,497,694 · OtherDiocese of OrlandoUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $702,577 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $351,751 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEFR LOPEZ CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $178,430 · OtherCatholic Campus Ministry at UCF: $167,885 · Other+31 more: $635,892 · Other+31 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $965,392 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES …+2 more: $15,850 · Human ServicesCRISTO REY ORLANDO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationCRISTO REY NETWORK: $20,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationCHESTERTON ACADEMY OF ORLANDO INC: $6,200 · EducationCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $11,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN VILLAGE INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,534,229Human Services$981,242Education$61,200Religion$11,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $965,392 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCRISTO REY ORLANDO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWaterleaf Women's Center Inc: $10,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN VILLAGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA DIAPER BANK INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBISHOP GRADY VILLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY ORLANDO HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Waterleaf Women's Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF ORLANDO INC ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗

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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK12.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 of Central Florida Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catholic Foundation of Central Florida Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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