Pennsylvania · Public charity
The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILAdelphia (cfgp) exists to better the mission of the catholic church for the betterment of the lives of people. The foundation provides donors an avenue to fulfill their charitable goals through the support of projects, programs, organizations and initiatives.
- $8.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,948,906
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $8.6M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $16M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $13M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $2.7M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $840k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $859k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia | $20,118,513 | 5 | 85% |
| Catholic Social Services | $2,820,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Project Home | $1,206,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia | $1,124,591 | 9 | n/a |
| Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary | $953,241 | 9 | n/a |
| Catholic Leadership Institute | $920,789 | 8 | 3% |
| The Culture Project International | $717,087 | 5 | 9% |
| Archdiocese of Philadelphia | $549,950 | 9 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Catholic Bioethics Center | $324,377 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 95 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia | $20,118,513 | 5 | 85% |
| Catholic Social Services | $2,820,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Project Home | $1,206,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia | $1,124,591 | 9 | n/a |
| Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary | $953,241 | 9 | n/a |
| Catholic Leadership Institute | $920,789 | 8 | 3% |
| The Culture Project International | $717,087 | 5 | 9% |
| Archdiocese of Philadelphia | $549,950 | 9 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Catholic Bioethics Center | $324,377 | 8 | n/a |
| Gwynedd-Mercy Academy | $250,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Parish | $180,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Legacy of Life Foundation Inc | $178,125 | 4 | 2% |
| Caritas in Veritate - Civ USA | $175,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Penn Catholic Newmann Community | $140,000 | 3 | n/a |
| St Francis Desales Church | $134,280 | 2 | n/a |
| Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul | $129,263 | 4 | n/a |
| Gianna Center of Philadelphia | $121,000 | 3 | 6% |
| The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Holy Angels Catholic Church | $105,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Regina Angelorum Academy | $102,500 | 2 | 3% |
| The Catholic University of America | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Caring for Friends | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lima Central Catholic High School | $100,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Neumann University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Penn Newman Ctr | $95,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Culture Project Inc | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Peter Parish | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Gesu School Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Christendom Educational Corporation | $61,644 | 4 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Pennsylvania State University | $56,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Collegium Institute | $55,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Roman Catholic High School for Boys | $53,031 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Athletes for Christ | $51,300 | 3 | 7% |
| The Dynamic Catholic Institute | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Man Up Ministries | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Chestnut Hill College | $45,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Cranaleith Spiritual Center | $45,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Saint John's Hospice | $43,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Francis Inn | $42,540 | 4 | n/a |
| Office of Catholic Education | $41,699 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $41,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dominican University | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Providence Center | $35,768 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Family University | $35,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Liguori Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Ignatius Nursing & Rehab Center | $34,549 | 1 | 0% |
| St Josephs Preparatory School | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lima Central Catholic Ed Fd | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Medical Association | $26,459 | 1 | 1% |
| St Patricks Roman Catholic Church | $25,422 | 1 | n/a |
| Philabundance | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Independence Mission Schools | $24,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Knights of Columbus | $23,181 | 1 | n/a |
| Stewardship a Mission of Faith | $21,631 | 2 | 2% |
| Misericordia University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Chester University Student Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dolan Family Charities | $20,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kutztown University Student Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Mercy Regional Catholic School | $16,881 | 2 | n/a |
| Regina Academies | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fellowship of Catholic University Students | $13,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Corpus Christi | $10,208 | 1 | n/a |
| Nutritional Development Services | $10,198 | 1 | 0% |
| Live Vertical Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Widener University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sophia Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Helena 31009 (Blue Bell) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Alumnae Association of Spelman College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Order of St Augustine Province of St Thomas of Villanova | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Archbishop Ryan High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Family Regional Catholic School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Institute of Technology | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Katharine of Siena | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nativity of Our Lord | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Susan B Anthony List Education Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Collegiate Cultural Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Mother of Providence Regional Catholic School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools | $8,850 | 1 | 0% |
| St Ephrem Catholic School | $8,560 | 1 | n/a |
| Mercy Vocational High School Sisters of Mercy | $6,898 | 1 | n/a |
| St Aloysius Academy | $6,082 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith in the Future Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Alphonsus Parish | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gwynedd Mercy University | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Penn State Abington Campus | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Bloomsburg University Foundationinc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| La Salle University | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Connelly Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Philadelphia Foundation · Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila
- How much does The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila give?
- The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila reported 53 grants totaling $8,635,877 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Religion (16%), Education (4%).
- Who are The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia ($20M), Catholic Social Services ($2.8M), Project Home ($1.2M).
- Does The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connelly Foundation, Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila based?
- The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila is based in PA.
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