· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $369k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA5× · 2020–2025 · $20M · revenue +88% · 85% of their budget
- CSCatholic Social Services3× · 2021–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +42%
- PHPROJECT HOME6× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8.1M
- OLOur Lady of Guadalupeone grant, 2017 · $500k
- SPSAINT PETER PARISHone grant, 2024 · $214k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
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.
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,…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
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…
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.
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)
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.
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…
See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 CARING FOR FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.