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The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia

Helping catholics with faith-inspired giving and legacy planning while stewarding funds for the long-term sustainability of the catholic organizations in our community.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
103
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$2.1M
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 2025.

Education$10MReligion$8.2MHuman Services$1.8MRecreation & Sports$893kHealth$866kPhilanthropy$718kHousing & Shelter$566kArts & Culture$144kOther$0
02FY2025 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 103 grants below total $5,634,260, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,001,636 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $367,376 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 $10k35 grants · $265k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $957k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
$13,100
Median grant
14
States reached
$151M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Southern Methodist University$2,150,000
Archdiocese of Atlanta$516,311
St Pius X Catholic High School$403,450
Catholic Charities Atlanta Inc$277,530
St Vincent de Paul Georgia$158,600
St Jude the Apostle Catholic School$143,500
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School$118,500
St Thomas More Catholic School$89,200
Holy Spirit Catholic Church$83,900
St Michael Catholic Church$75,600
Cathedral of Christ the King$65,268
St Peter Claver Regional Catholic School$65,140
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church$63,900
St John the Evangelist Catholic School$52,000
Mt Irenaeus Franciscan Mountain Retreat Inc$50,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%A Womans Haven: $8k → 16%St Vincent de Paul Georgia: $159k → 14%The American Red Cross of East Central Georgia: $6k → 18%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $5k → 19%A Womans Haven: $7k → 16%Family Promise of Hall County: $11k → 12%Society of St Vincent de Paul Georgia: $150k → 14%St Vincent de Paul Georgia: $75k → 14%Family Promise of Hall County: $8k → 12%St Vincent de Paul Georgia: $38k → 14%Society of St Vincent de Paul Georgia: $30k → 14%Society of St Vincent de Paul Georgia: $17k → 14%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA: $12k → 14%Exceptional Foundation of Atlanta: $10k → 9%St Vincent de Paul Georgia: $10k → 14%Catholic Charities Atlanta Inc: $278k → 8%Catholic Charities Atlanta Inc: $159k → 8%Catholic Charities Atlanta Inc: $152k → 8%Catholic Charities Atlanta Inc: $147k → 8%Catholic Charities Atlanta Inc: $143k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ATLANTA: $114k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ATLANTA: $112k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ATLANTA: $103k → 8%Latin American Association: $14k → 13%Saia Employee Relief Foundation Inc: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 106 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

106 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
53

Total granted

$21M
$989k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+43%

Still filing today

27%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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
Human ServicesReligionEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    4× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +39%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +65%
  • CH
    CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD
    2× · 2018–2021 · $515k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • CN
    CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR EDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +52%
  • LO
    LEGION OF CHRIST INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • HF
    HOME & FAMILY INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $76k
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
Saint Joseph's Health System Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

Health
2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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3
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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4
St Mary's Hospital Inc

We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's hospital is a member of trinity health georgia and trinity…

Health
5
St Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital Inc

We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's sacred heart hospital is a member of trinity health georgia…

Health
6
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
7
Mercy Services Downtown Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

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8
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
9
St Mary's Good Samaritan Foundation Inc

We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's good samaritan foundation is a member of the trinity health…

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10
Cathedral Towers Inc

Provide housing for low income elderly persons age 62 and over without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or disability.

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11
Villa Mary Immaculate

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia; the most unlike its peers is Familiar Hearts Animal Society. 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

69 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. 69 of the 179 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
50/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA: $2,613,937 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTAST PIUS X CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,964,872 · OtherST PIUS X CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INCROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC: $944,250 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INCST MARYS ACADEMY: $679,248 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH ATLANTA INC: $571,243 · OtherST PETER CLAVER REGIONAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $534,902 · Other+139 more: $8,251,316 · Other+139 moreSouthern Methodist University: $3,150,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist U…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,010,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre …+6 more: $279,450 · Education+6 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC: $1,479,065 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $218,974 · Human Services+10 more: $161,500 · Human ServicesTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA: $632,548 · PhilanthropyST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY: $250,000 · ReligionCITY OF REFUGE: $112,500 · ReligionSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $75,000 · ReligionPURIFICATION HERITAGE CENTER INC: $38,400 · ReligionCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Religion+3 more: $24,500 · ReligionCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $515,000 · Recreation & SportsInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $222,500 · Housing & ShelterMY SISTER'S PLACE OF GAINESVILLE INC: $122,700 · Housing & ShelterCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $12,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$15,559,768Education$4,439,450Human Services$1,859,539Philanthropy$632,548Religion$525,400Recreation & Sports$515,000Housing & Shelter$457,200

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 budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC: $1,479,065 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,010,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA: $632,548 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $515,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY: $250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $222,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $218,974 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMonsignor Walter J Donovan Catholic High School: $181,742 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $142,900 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMY SISTER'S PLACE OF GAINESVILLE INC: $122,700 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $112,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED: $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY AID CLINIC INC: $83,100 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOOL GIRLS INC: $67,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCatholic Housing Initiatives Inc: $65,107 over 3y, 57% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S MERCY CARE SERVICES INC: $63,920 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCISCAN MOUNTAIN RETREAT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST GEORGIA CARE INC CHOICES PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $46,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPURIFICATION HERITAGE CENTER INC: $38,400 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $36,141 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Springs Theatre: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA CATHOLIC RADIO INC: $29,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $23,950 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $22,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $19,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS INC: $18,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetA WOMANS HAVEN INC: $15,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWHISPERING ANGELS YOUTH RANCH INC: $14,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPF SUPPORT INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES OF GEORGIA INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL FUTURES CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJERRY CEBULSKI AFRICAN DISABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA ↗
  • Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Outreach Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Monsignor Walter J Donovan Catholic High School ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE OF GAINESVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …The Waterfall Foundat…Knights of Columbus C…Patterson Family Foun…The Goizueta Foundati…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainUnited Way of Greater…Tr Uw Charles I BrananGeorgia Power Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…The Gift of Hope Foun…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA53.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Patterson Family Foundation Inc · The Goizueta Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Gift of Hope 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 North Georgia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%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
    13report 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 179 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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