Maryland · Nonprofit
CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC
CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $388,519 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($149,112). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $389k
- Net assets
- $144k
What Catalytic Communities Inc does
Mission
Catalytic communities is dedicated to developing models for effective integration between informal and formal settlements in cities across the globe, based on the experience of rio de janeiro and implementing asset-based community development. We do this through a combination of research, education, training, strategic communications, technology, networks, advocacy and participatory urban planning. Programs include training favela leaders in communication and strategy, conducting educational community visits in partnership with u.s. Universities, public lectures, conducting research, educational publications, development of land rights policy proposals and convening and mapping community assets and organizations. The organization scales its activities by disseminating models and approaches developed to other community development organizations worldwide after pioneering and incubating programs in rio de janeiro.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nonprofit news and social media publication of 88 favela community bilingual news stories reflecting community voices, data and solutions to climate change, water, housing, community memory, and more.
$24,725 spent21% of program spendingDevelopment and facilitation of network of favela leaders addressing social and environmental challenges, including running large festival, exchange, exhibitions and research.
$42,062 spent36% of program spendingSupport of communities in Brazil in development community land trusts through legal support for establishing future associations: Information to local governments in Brazil interested in integrating CLTs into their master plans.
$51,563 spent44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $118,350.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $179k to $148k (−18%).
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.
84% of CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Theresa Williamson
Executive Director
Board chair
Stephanie Butcher
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $45k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC’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
CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 44% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 57% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $385k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC's revenue fell 51% between 2021 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
83%
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 CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES 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 CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC?
- CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $388,519 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($149,112). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $388,519 in grants to CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $149,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATALYTIC COMMUNITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing