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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,766 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($308,398). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$7.0M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$753k
Net assets
$3.3M
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson Inc does

Mission

To provide assistance to its related organizations in supporting the needy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support to related parties in order to provide charity and continue the ministry of jesus christ.

    $5,131,700 spent$4,155,665 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,131,700.

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 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2019 Revenue 1984 ($1.5M) Expenses 2580 ($1.1M) Net assets 1313 ($426k)2020 Revenue 2329 ($1.7M) Expenses 4349 ($1.8M) Net assets 1458 ($474k)2021 Revenue 4738 ($3.5M) Expenses 6391 ($2.7M) Net assets 4055 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 7428 ($5.5M) Expenses 12940 ($5.4M) Net assets 4369 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 9566 ($7.1M) Expenses 14114 ($5.9M) Net assets 8064 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 11132 ($8.3M) Expenses 17497 ($7.3M) Net assets 10981 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 9384 ($7.0M) Expenses 17252 ($7.2M) Net assets 10209 ($3.3M)
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (9384)Expenses (17252)Net assets (10209)

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 $1.7M to $2.9M (+72%).

$33k
$426k
$657k
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.9M
$4.0M
$4.0M
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’18
$395k
’19
−$90k
’20
$846k
’21
$102k
’22
$1.2M
’23
$948k
’24
−$251k
’25
2.3
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed18181719181818
Joined·+0+2+3+2+4+4
No longer listed·031344
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $0 → $121k.

8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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 ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC.

41%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 74% · 2021 54% · 2022 60% · 2023 41% — 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

50% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

93% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON 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 $50k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 5 states.

NY
NJ
CT
DE
NC

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $703k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON 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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 19%Fundraising 10%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson · exempt
  • Straight and Narrow · exempt
  • Department for Persons With Disabilities · exempt
  • Catholic Family and Community Services · exempt
  • Catholic Charities USA · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC?
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,766 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($308,398). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% 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 ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $752,766 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $308,398 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 15 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