Kentucky · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,302,932 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,566,500). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- The Gheens Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Weisenburger Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio match
- Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fundportfolio match
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.
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: 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).
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
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 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 69 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 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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.
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; 75% 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
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 69 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Gheens Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 182 organizations that share your funders · funds 234 organizations near you
- Weisenburger Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Altsheler-Durell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ginkgo Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caroline Christian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Norton Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- James Graham Brown Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 85 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you
- Sam Swope Family Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- C E and S Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you
- Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundationshared fundersKY · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Metro United Way Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 86 organizations that share your funders · funds 205 organizations near you
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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Archdiocese of Louisville · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,302,932 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,566,500). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $16,302,932 in grants to CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 52 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 69funders 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