Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,212,889 to it, the largest being SUSQUEHANNA FOUNDATION ($8,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $214M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $246M
What Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools does
Mission
Blocs bridges the business community and individuals with schools in pennsylvania to establish financial assistance to families in need, bolster school infrastructures, and expand educational opportunities for families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pennsylvania businesses and individual taxpayers have participated in the eitc, ostc and pre-k tax credit programs offered by the state department of community and economic development (dced). The significant contributions and participation provided by these businesses and individuals allowed blocs to award over 19,000 catholic and private school scholarships to numerous counties in pennsylvania for families in financial need.see schedule o.for this year, blocs has worked with close to 200 businesses and over 2,000 individual taxpayers to take advantage of over $200 million in tax credits. However, the need for additional financial assistance remains significant as blocs received over 30,000 applications and over $100 million dollars in qualified need. Blocs through the scholarship committee has established an emergency scholarship program which reviews emergency requests for financial assistance for families based on extenuating circumstances that greatly affect a family's income and ability to pay for education. For the current year, blocs provided support of approximately $595,000. Blocs has also developed the urban endowment initiative to sustain targeted schools in poor and…
$98,673,948 spentof which $95,343,008 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,673,948.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $137M to $256M (+86%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Robert J Delany Sr
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $4.1M → $74k.
11 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS’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
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 48% · 2020 22% · 2021 82% · 2022 55% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
31% of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS?
- BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,212,889 to it, the largest being SUSQUEHANNA FOUNDATION ($8,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $10,212,889 in grants to BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS?
- SUSQUEHANNA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing