New York · Nonprofit
CATALYST INC
CATALYST INC (New York) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,826,492 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,244,669). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Catalyst Inc does
Mission
Catalyst is the leading nonprofit organization with a mission to accelerate progress for women through workplace inclusion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research the research team conducts applied research to promote gender, racial and ethnic inclusion in workplaces around the world. This research culminates in published studies that include findings from interviews, focus groups and surveys, as well as company best practices and recommendations for companies and firms creating equitable and inclusive workplaces for women and men. Catalyst conducts research globally and has produced reports specific to the united states, canada, europe, and australia.
$4,560,169 spent31% of program spendingThe global marketing and communications ("gmc") the gmc team shapes, enhances, and elevates the catalyst brand, mission, and values to supporters and the general public through the creation and promotion of catalyst products, events, and services. Gmc is responsible for creating, launching, and promoting catalyst content; managing social media; developing policy messaging; producing public campaigns; planning and executing in-person and virtual events; and expanding the catalyst digital footprint.
$3,591,709 spent24% of program spendingNational education national education fosters awareness and informs decision makers of the changing role and needs of women in the workplace by promoting catalyst's mission of advancing women in business and the professions, catalyst's research, and services. National education also includes the execution of strategic plans to expand the reach of catalyst's mission in the north american, european and asian business communities.
$2,123,147 spent14% of program spendingAll other programs:events, strategic solutions, and information center services.
$4,644,148 spent$3,226,689 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,919,173.
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 2018 to 2019, from $28M to $42M (+50%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of CATALYST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Kathy Warden
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $74k → $1.1M.
9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.2M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CATALYST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CATALYST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
CATALYST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 CATALYST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 97% · 2019 39% · 2020 17% · 2021 39% · 2022 20% · 2023 39% — 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
62% of CATALYST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
CATALYST INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CATALYST INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CATALYST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$14k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATALYST INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 27 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Catalyst Canada Inc · exempt
- Catalyst Australia Women Research and Consulting Ltd · exempt
- Catalyst Europe Ag Co Kpmg Fides · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATALYST INC: 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 CATALYST INC?
- CATALYST INC (New York) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,826,492 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,244,669). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATALYST INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $3,826,492 in grants to CATALYST INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATALYST INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,244,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATALYST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 44 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