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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.

$8.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$3.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$24MReligion$7.7MEducation$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.2MPhilanthropy$854kInternational$717kHealth$650kFood & Nutrition$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $369k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $6.1M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY FAMILY HOME - LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$3,948,906
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$1,600,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA OFFICE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES$324,000
CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$250,000
THE CULTURE PROJECT$214,000
VOCATION OFFICE FOR THE DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD$193,235
OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART PARISH$180,000
ST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY$173,711
SAINT MARGARET CHURCH$171,000
Individual grant recipient$129,784
ST FRANCIS DE SALES SCHOOL$128,128
SAINT PATRICK PARISH - PHILADELPHIA$104,891
PENN CATHOLIC NEWMANN COMMUNITY$100,000
NEUMANN UNIVERSITY$100,000
GIANNA CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA$90,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $206k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $200k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $200k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $200k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $200k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $200k → 22%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

ME
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 61 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
77

Total granted

$34M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+15%

Still filing today

49%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
EducationReligionPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $20M · revenue +47% · 85% of their budget
  • CS
    Catholic Social Services
    3× · 2021–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +42%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOME
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $8.1M
  • OL
    Our Lady of Guadalupe
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • SP
    SAINT PETER PARISH
    one grant, 2024 · $214k
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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Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
2
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
3
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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4
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…

Education
5
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
9
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
10
Saint Elizabeth University

The mission of the saint elizabeth university, sponsored by the sisters of charity, is to be a community of learning in the catholic liberal arts tradition for students of diverse ages, backgrounds, and cultures. (continued on schedule…

Education
11
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
12
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila; the most unlike its peers is Dolan Family Charities. 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

53 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. 53 of the 158 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
41/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,118,513 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIAIndividual grant recipient: $8,100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCatholic Social Services: $2,820,000 · OtherCatholic Social Services+117 more: $9,911,919 · Other+117 moreCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $920,789 · ReligionTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $318,924 · ReligionCATHOLIC ATHLETES FOR CHRIST: $51,300 · ReligionTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Religion+2 more: $31,631 · ReligionPROJECT HOME: $1,206,000 · Human ServicesThe Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc: $120,000 · EducationREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $102,500 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $100,000 · EducationNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $80,000 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $70,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $61,644 · EducationCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $45,500 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $41,000 · EducationDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · Education+14 more: $261,318 · EducationThe Culture Project International: $717,087 · Youth DevelopmentFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $530,844 · Community ImprovementLEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $178,125 · PhilanthropyCARITAS IN VERITATE - CIV USA: $175,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER: $45,000 · PhilanthropyDOLAN FAMILY CHARITIES: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$40,950,432Religion$1,372,644Human Services$1,206,000Education$1,091,962Youth Development$717,087Community Improvement$530,844Philanthropy$418,125

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 budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,118,513 over 5y, 85% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $2,820,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $1,206,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $920,789 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetThe Culture Project International: $717,087 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $530,844 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $318,924 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetLEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $178,125 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCARITAS IN VERITATE - CIV USA: $175,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetGIANNA CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $121,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetThe Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $102,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $61,644 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCollegium Institute: $55,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetCATHOLIC ATHLETES FOR CHRIST: $51,300 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $45,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSaint John's Hospice: $43,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY: $35,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST IGNATIUS NURSING & REHAB CENTER: $34,549 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $26,459 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPhilabundance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $24,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEWARDSHIP A MISSION OF FAITH: $21,631 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY STUDENT SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOLAN FAMILY CHARITIES: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY STUDENT SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNUTRITIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $10,198 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE VERTICAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTERRI SCHIAVO LIFE & HOPE NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCollegiate Cultural Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $8,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $6,000 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Culture Project International ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS IN VERITATE - CIV USA ↗
  • Who funds GIANNA CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc ↗
  • Who funds REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR FRIENDS ↗

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.

Connelly FoundationBusiness Leadership O…The Philadelphia Foun…Ambassadors Fund for …United Way of Greater…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…The Maguire FoundationW W Smith Charitable …Central Pennsylvania …Knights of Columbus C…Chubb Charitable Foun…
Connelly FoundationPA48.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 158 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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