Michigan · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,167,666 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($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.
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.
- Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trustshared funders
- Napa Institute Foundationportfolio match
- The Ferry Family Charitable Foundationportfolio 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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 3 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.
“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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
- Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trustshared fundersIL · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- Napa Institute Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ferry Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association of the United States of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jmj Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Koch Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Sunday Visitor Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Allegan County Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fabiano Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catholic Foundation No Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brian M and Erin T Kelly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Sanctuary at St Ann L3c · disregarded
- Diocese of Kalamazoo · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH: 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 FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH?
- CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MICH (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,167,666 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($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 3 organizations giving $2,167,666 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?
- Schwab Charitable Fund 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.
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 3funders 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