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CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH

CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,177,966 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.1M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$15M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Catholic Foundation of Southwestern Mich does

Mission

Hold funds for furthering the charitable, educational, and social services of the catholic church of the diocese of kalamazoo, mi.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Held, managed and distributed funds for furthering the charitable educational, and social services of the catholic church of the diocese of kalamazoo, mi.

    $5,417 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,417.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($161k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 0 ($0)2018 Revenue 266 ($428k) Expenses 103 ($70k) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 294 ($474k) Expenses 399 ($270k) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 119 ($192k) Expenses 483 ($327k) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 881 ($1.4M) Expenses 271 ($183k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 3655 ($5.9M) Expenses 69 ($47k) Net assets 491 ($6.6M)2023 Revenue 1240 ($2.0M) Expenses 63 ($43k) Net assets 644 ($8.6M)2024 Revenue 2031 ($3.3M) Expenses 158 ($107k) Net assets 894 ($12M)2025 Revenue 1948 ($3.1M) Expenses 120 ($82k) Net assets 1100 ($15M)
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Revenue (1948)Expenses (120)Net assets (1100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $19M to $25M (+32%).

$9.6M
$9.9M
$11M
$8.8M
$4.3M
$10M
$14M
$19M
$25M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$94k
’17
$359k
’18
$204k
’19
−$136k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$5.8M
’22
$2.0M
’23
$3.2M
’24
$3.1M
’25
827
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

Sherry Gesmundo

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed33344441212
Joined·+0+0+2+1+0+0+11+1
No longer listed·00110031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

100% 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 FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH.

46%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • The Sanctuary at St Ann L3c · disregarded
  • Diocese of Kalamazoo · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH?
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,177,966 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,177,966 in grants to CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 4 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