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The Kristina & William Catto Foundation at a glance

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The Kristina & William Catto Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$899k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.0MHealth$1.1MEnvironment$782kArts & Culture$675kAnimals$369kCivil Rights$194kYouth Development$186kPhilanthropy$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$250,000
OPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
OCEANA$80,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$50,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$50,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$25,000
ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST$25,000
THE BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE$25,000
RED CLOUD RENEWABLES$20,000
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION$20,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SACRED HEART ACADEMY$20,000
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE SOUTHEAST$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $1k → 9%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $500 → 9%SMYAL: $5k → 14%SMYAL: $5k → 14%TRARON CENTER: $3k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%STREET SENSE: $10k → 14%STREET SENSE: $3k → 14%STREET SENSE: $3k → 14%STREET SENSE: $3k → 14%STREET SENSE: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%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
IL
MI
NY
SD
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
LA
MS
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of The Kristina & William Catto Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Kristina & William Catto Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 68 repeat orgs$426k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
42

Total granted

$5.7M
$389k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+3%

Still filing today

72%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • OW
    OPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +33% · 100% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +79%
  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • OW
    OPEN WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CLARA
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
UltraViolet Education Fund

Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…

Civil Rights
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is O Street Museum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 113 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)
71/72
Grantees still filing
49/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,260,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $267,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $265,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $155,000 · OtherTHE BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $130,000 · Other+67 more: $1,105,600 · Other+67 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $468,532 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOA…The Potomac School: $90,000 · EducationThe Potomac S…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $47,500 · EducationAMERICAN UNIV…+2 more: $21,000 · EducationOPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $625,000 · HealthOPTIMAL WELL…Physicians Committee for Responsible Med: $46,000 · HealthPhysicians C…+3 more: $25,000 · HealthOCEANA INC: $280,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $70,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VALL…Casey Trees: $70,000 · EnvironmentCasey Tree…ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $42,500 · EnvironmentASPEN CENT…RED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $40,000 · EnvironmentRED CLOUD …ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $25,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $21,500 · EnvironmentACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $20,000 · Environment+4 more: $16,000 · EnvironmentO STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $155,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art: $55,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $42,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $13,000 · Arts & CultureDefenders of Wildlife: $250,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $95,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $19,000 · AnimalsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $55,000 · Crime & LegalPEACE FOR DC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,183,100Education$727,032Health$696,000Environment$585,000Arts & Culture$485,000Animals$364,000Crime & Legal$107,000

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 budgetOPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $625,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $468,532 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC: $280,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $250,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetO STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Potomac School: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCasey Trees: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $62,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $47,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $46,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $42,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $40,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE FOR DC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Sense Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $19,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNAACP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDC ABORTION FUND: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 OPTIMAL WELLNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds O STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Potomac School ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Casey Trees ↗
  • Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
  • Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds RED CLOUD RENEWABLE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE FOR DC ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Monumental Sports & E…The Ford FoundationThe Keith Campbell Fo…The Rockefeller Found…Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC26.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Kristina & William Catto Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kristina & William Catto Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 113 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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