Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,447,195 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($3,581,887). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh does
Mission
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. Catholic charities is the primary social service agency of the diocese of pittsburgh, serving all regardless of religious affiliations, at their time of great need. Relying on god's providence and embracing the call of the gospel and the social teachings of the church, we are dedicated to championing the dignity of the person, improving the quality of life, and advocating for the social good of the human family, so that the poor and vulnerable, always welcomed and loved, embrace opportunities necessary to realize their potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Catholic charities administers a program for seniors to enhance their independence in the community. Catholic charities provides comprehensive services in the home, which may eliminate the need for an individual to move to a nursing home. Services include: care management, home delivered meals, nursing home transition, personal care, respite care, family caregiver support, assistance with understanding medicaid coverage and options, long-term care ombudsman program, support groups, transportation, and home support. Catholic charities runs two community centers where individuals can receive meals, recreation activities, education programming, health promotion programs, and activities which includes a state-of-the-art fitness center with a full-time fitness expert. Case management is provided to consumers with the goal of assisting each resident in maintaining their independence until they must move to assisted living, personal care, or nursing care facilities.
$3,126,736 spentof which $410,816 as grants$3,477,955 earned by the program32% of program spendingSt. Joseph house of hospitality is a program of catholic charities of the diocese of pittsburgh that serves men, 50 years of age and older, from southwestern pennsylvania who are homeless or faced with homelessness. A majority of homeless men who are served have a mental health diagnosis or developmental disabilities, some have problems stemming from substance abuse, and others have been released from incarceration. Due to a lack of education and opportunity or depressed economic conditions, many of st. Joseph's clients cannot secure gainful employment or become financially independent. St. Joseph's offers residents permanent housing and transitional housing. In the permanent housing program, men live at st. Joseph's as long as they are capable of independent living. Residents in permanent housing program typically live at st. Joseph's for more than 24 months.st. Joseph's food program is an important part of the services provided for residents. St. Joseph's prepares and serves meals at the same time everyday, providing a daily structure that is often lacking in the residents' previous lifestyle. Nutritious meals served at the same time everyday is important in establishing a…
$1,603,463 spentof which $443,747 as grants$1,258,060 earned by the program16% of program spendingHousing & homelessness butler focuses on providing needs to clients experiencing homelessness or close to experiencing homelessness - case management, emergency shelter, winter assistance, and temporary housing.
$1,493,842 spentof which $539,297 as grants$1,337,999 earned by the program15% of program spendingCatholic charities also provides support and services in the following areas: shelter services - path ii grant, aging assistance, anger management, community outreach, counseling, family services, financial assistance, homeless care management, rental housing assistance, information & referral, life skills education, pregnancy & family support, refugee support services, youth & family services, community education/advocacy, youth coping skills education, and assistance for youth in need.
$3,561,525 spentof which $656,702 as grants36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,785,566.
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 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $30M (+33%).
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: 2017 46% · 2018 42% · 2019 48% · 2020 43% · 2021 54% · 2022 51% · 2023 39% · 2024 32% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Susan Rauscher
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.0M.
20 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 PGH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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 PGH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
71% 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 PGH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 53% · 2019 56% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 18% — 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
57% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH'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
59% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH'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 $5.1M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$400k
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 PGH
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
- Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,447,195 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($3,581,887). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% 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 PGH have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $12,447,195 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH?
- THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $3,581,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 75 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