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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,236,089 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($8,478,907). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$46M
Funders on record
46
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$21M
25/46 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany does

Mission

Catholic charities, a ministry of the catholic diocese of albany, is committed to active witness on behalf of the scriptural values of mercy and justice. Catholic charities, recognizing human need at all stages of life, responds to all persons regardless of race, creed or lifestyle, with special emphasis on the economically poor and the vulnerable. Catholic charities serves and empowers persons in need, advocates for a just society, calls forth and collaborates with women and men of good will in fulfillment of its mission.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. A wide range of services provided to individuals and families of those who are developmentally disabled, including advocacy referral, residential placement, in-home residential and respite services. Services feature independent case management services and in-home residential services provided under the individualized service environment and home and community based services waiver. Catholic charities assists the consumer in locating and choosing the community services needed to meet as many of the individual's needs as possible.

    $13,323,742 spent$14,398,199 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  2. Providing counseling, advocacy, home visitation, case management and supportive services to pregnant and parenting adolescents, their families and significant persons involved in unplanned pregnancies. Also provides prevention services for youth at risk to enhance self-esteem and self-actualization while reducing teen pregnancy and other social risks.

    $4,460,992 spent
    10% of program spending
  3. Providing housing and supportive services for formerly homeless and low-income individuals and families in addition to emergency shelters for homeless, offering meals and a safe environment to help individuals make a transition to permanent housing.

    $7,459,498 spent
    17% of program spending
  4. Parish social ministry/outreach/emergency assistance, court related services, day care, domestic violence, emergency shelters, foster care, hispanic family assistance, immigration services, individual and family counseling, low-income housing, maternity services, mediation, mental health/substance abuse, services for youth at risk, social justice/advocacy, volunteer services, welfare to work, women, infant and children(wic), youth education/recreation, property devlopment

    $17,718,829 spentof which $2,060,223 as grants
    41% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,963,061.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($43M) Expenses 100 ($42M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 101 ($44M) Expenses 103 ($43M) Net assets 104 ($19M)2019 Revenue 103 ($44M) Expenses 102 ($43M) Net assets 112 ($20M)2020 Revenue 109 ($47M) Expenses 108 ($45M) Net assets 124 ($23M)2021 Revenue 104 ($45M) Expenses 106 ($45M) Net assets 134 ($25M)2022 Revenue 126 ($54M) Expenses 116 ($49M) Net assets 155 ($28M)2023 Revenue 112 ($48M) Expenses 114 ($48M) Net assets 159 ($29M)2024 Revenue 112 ($48M) Expenses 120 ($50M) Net assets 148 ($27M)2025 Revenue 107 ($46M) Expenses 126 ($53M) Net assets 114 ($21M)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (126)Net assets (114)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $36M (+21%).

$26M
$26M
$26M
$30M
$36M
$37M
$40M
$36M
$35M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 42% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 54% · 2023 49% · 2024 52% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$562k
’18
$1.3M
’19
$1.8M
’20
$361k
’21
$5.2M
’22
$428k
’23
−$2.3M
’24
−$6.6M
’25
1.2
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.

Board chair

Most Reverend Edward B Scharfenberg

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252627252931353028
Joined·+3+5+2+5+3+11+3+3
No longer listed·24411785
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $772k → $583k.

8 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

60%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 27% · 2019 88% · 2020 51% · 2021 80% · 2022 79% · 2023 51% — broadly stable.

“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

42% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
CT
MO
MD
DE
NC
DC

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.1M on record.

Federal$8.1M
grants $7.8Mcontracts $242k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.4M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$846k
  • Department of Justice$550k
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$242k

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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY?
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,236,089 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($8,478,907). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY have?
IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $14,236,089 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY?
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,478,907 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY find more funders?
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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 46 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