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Word on Fire Catholic Ministries

WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.

$25k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$57M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Word on Fire Catholic Ministries funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$25k100%
FY20202$96kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$64kHuman Services$32kEducation$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children$63,88010%
Maria Goretti Network$31,9401n/a
The Catholic University of America$25,00010%

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About Word on Fire Catholic Ministries

How much does Word on Fire Catholic Ministries give?
Word on Fire Catholic Ministries reported 1 grants totaling $25,250 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Word on Fire Catholic Ministries fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (53%), Human Services (26%), Education (21%).
Who are Word on Fire Catholic Ministries's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ($64k), Maria Goretti Network ($32k), The Catholic University of America ($25k).
Does Word on Fire Catholic Ministries fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Word on Fire Catholic Ministries based?
Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is based in IL.

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 3 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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