Missouri · Nonprofit
Black Catholic Messenger Foundation
Black Catholic Messenger Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,677 to it, the largest being Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Black Catholic Messenger Foundation receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,452 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundationshared funders
- James & Zita Gavin Foundationportfolio match
- Eternal Word Television Network Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Black Catholic Messenger Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Black Catholic Messenger Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Black Catholic Messenger Foundation.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Black Catholic Messenger Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- James & Zita Gavin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eternal Word Television Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lynn P Demarco Charitable Foundati0nportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Sunday Visitor Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seidler Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rbn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knights of Columbusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Delivery From Heaven Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bonfield Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William H & Lois J McEssy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John C Bowden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Black Catholic Messenger Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Black Catholic Messenger Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Black Catholic Messenger Foundation?
- Black Catholic Messenger Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,677 to it, the largest being Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Black Catholic Messenger Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,677 in grants to Black Catholic Messenger Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Catholic Messenger Foundation?
- Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Catholic Messenger Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing