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CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,419,707 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,566,500). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.7M
Funders on record
70
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$54M
53/70 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Catholic Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. The foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford the full cost of tuition in catholic elementary schools in central kentucky.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grants were provided for tuition assistance to catholic school families, technology enhancements at parishes and schools, professional development of faculty and staff, and religious education programs.

    $5,645,378 spentof which $5,433,231 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,645,378.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2018 Revenue 169 ($5.1M) Expenses 117 ($5.1M) Net assets 104 ($24M)2019 Revenue 180 ($5.4M) Expenses 113 ($5.0M) Net assets 109 ($25M)2020 Revenue 187 ($5.6M) Expenses 115 ($5.1M) Net assets 109 ($25M)2021 Revenue 368 ($11M) Expenses 119 ($5.2M) Net assets 166 ($37M)2022 Revenue 290 ($8.7M) Expenses 140 ($6.1M) Net assets 153 ($35M)2023 Revenue 279 ($8.3M) Expenses 152 ($6.6M) Net assets 177 ($40M)2024 Revenue 367 ($11M) Expenses 158 ($6.9M) Net assets 218 ($49M)2025 Revenue 289 ($8.7M) Expenses 171 ($7.5M) Net assets 240 ($54M)
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Revenue (289)Expenses (171)Net assets (240)Peer revenue range

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 $25M to $38M (+50%).

$23M
$24M
$25M
$25M
$38M
$35M
$40M
$50M
$55M
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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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$1.4M
’17
−$37k
’18
$424k
’19
$557k
’20
$5.8M
’21
$2.6M
’22
$1.7M
’23
$4.1M
’24
$1.2M
’25
8.5
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

Joseph L Landenwich

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed273028273329303033
Joined·+7+4+4+7+8+6+7+6
No longer listed·465112573
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $839k → $1.6M.

21 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Msw Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

34%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 63% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% — 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

53% of CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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

CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 10 states in all.

WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CT
KY
TN
TX
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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

Against its field

CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve8.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 8%Fundraising 17%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Archdiocese of Louisville · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,419,707 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,566,500). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $16,419,707 in grants to CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,566,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 70 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