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Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc

Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,776 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($821,332). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.1M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$654k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc does

Mission

Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide counseling to approximately 1,400 clients, the majority of which live in poverty, most of the clients that remained in counseling for 3 sessions reported improved family life.

    $186,146 spentof which $14,572 as grants$61,346 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  2. Provided Adoption services to 200 clients. Services include securing adoption homes for special needs children, preparing children for placement, training adoptive parents, and post adoption counseling when needed.

    $432,337 spentof which $853 as grants$371,434 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Provided refugee relocation assistance.

    $2,457,389 spentof which $1,073,905 as grants$2,541,199 earned by the program
    64% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $755,487 spentof which $79,921 as grants$594,011 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,831,359.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($855k)2019 Revenue 81 ($1.4M) Expenses 87 ($1.6M) Net assets 85 ($724k)2020 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 78 ($1.5M) Net assets 110 ($941k)2021 Revenue 112 ($1.9M) Expenses 98 ($1.8M) Net assets 127 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 165 ($2.9M) Expenses 147 ($2.7M) Net assets 131 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 232 ($4.0M) Expenses 228 ($4.2M) Net assets 111 ($947k)2024 Revenue 233 ($4.1M) Expenses 235 ($4.4M) Net assets 76 ($654k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (233)Expenses (235)Net assets (76)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $1.3M (−19%).

$985k
$895k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.1M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$120k
’18
−$200k
’19
$174k
’20
$119k
’21
$131k
’22
−$210k
’23
−$319k
’24
0.4
months of
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

Dawn Joy

CEO

Board chair

Dan Zimmerman

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed891087910
Joined·+3+2+2+2+3+2
No longer listed·214311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $368k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie 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

Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc.

78%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 83% · 2023 86% — 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.

PA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’20
’21
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc?
Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,776 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($821,332). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,059,776 in grants to Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc?
US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $821,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 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