Kentucky · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $927,204 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($257,632). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Roaring Brook Foundation Incshared funders
- The Westerman Foundationportfolio match
- Wheaton Franciscan Services Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $193k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 LEXINGTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 LEXINGTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
98% 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 OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 65% · 2019 71% · 2020 45% · 2021 52% · 2022 67% · 2023 70% — 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
56% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
65% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON 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 $326k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $601k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Roaring Brook Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- The Westerman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wheaton Franciscan Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scanlan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association of the United States of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paluch Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jessica Good Evans Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid America Assistance Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $927,204 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($257,632). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $927,204 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC?
- Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $257,632 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing