New York · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES
CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,107,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($985,975). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Catholic Guardian Services does
Mission
Catholic Guardian Services (the "agency"), a not-for-profit membership corporation, seeks to affirm the dignity of each person it serves and to carry a message of hope to vulnerable persons of all ages, regardless of race, color, creed or ethnic origin. Its goal is to protect and nurture disadvantaged children and individuals with disabilities, to increase their prospects for self sufficiency, to strengthen the family structures integral to their support, and to continually adapt its responses to their ever-changing needs. Specifically, it collaborates with others in the public and voluntary sectors to offer professional and compassionate care to needy individuals and groups through a broad array of community-based programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care programs: foster care programs - nyc 24 hour child care: foster boarding homes days care (167,728) - the program provides 24 hour a day safety and care through foster parents for previously abused and neglected children through 436 foster boarding homes in manhattan and the bronx. Children in this program receive medicaid coverage, social services planning and permanency. The foster boarding home program also offers special services to meet special needs such as children living with hiv/aids and other serious medical problems. The therapeutic foster boarding homes and teen units provide specialized clinical services that have been successful in allowing teenagers and other youngsters with severe emotional and behavioral challenges to live in family foster care rather than institutional settings.
$30,961,683 spentof which $15,089,858 as grants35% of program spendingUnaccompanied children (26,711 days care) - this program provides temporary community residential and family home services to unaccompanied minors who are apprehended in the u.s. By homeland security agents.
$21,526,711 spentof which $1,853,146 as grants24% of program spendingHuman services programs: pwdd-nys opwdd 24 hour care for people with developmental disabilities (11 residences) (25,977 days care) - the program serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing care and shelter and helping them fulfill their goals by carefully balancing supports and independence. This is accomplished through participation in day programs where people in the program learn new life skills by shopping, helping with household chores, playing sports, attending concerts, visiting museums and taking vacations. The participants in the program are part of the community around them holding jobs, doing volunteer work and having friends and knowing their neighbors.
$15,802,388 spentof which $703,174 as grants$18,115,067 earned by the program18% of program spendingHuman services programs, general/other: prevention (310 families) the family connections, functional family therapy-child welfare, and child success preventive programs provide support and stability to families in crisis with the goal of preventing placement of children in out-of-home care.foster care programs: htp group homes (3) (7,439 days care) the program provides 24 hour a day supervision food clothing education medical care and an intensive support system to older youth with severe emotional and behavioral challenges. The group homes are specially designed, clinically-based treatment programs targeting the needs of this population to adolescents. Types of group homes include rapid assessment centers providing evaluations and safety assessments to determine whether youth can be discharged from foster care, assertive community treatment homes serving the mentally ill population as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization and a non-secure detention program which motivates youth in the juvenile justice system to reconsider their values and personal goals while in a safe and secure environment.health care programs, general/other: medicaid (480 children) medicaid is…
$21,018,974 spentof which $664,123 as grants$8,205,732 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $89,309,756.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $44M to $60M (+37%).
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: 2017 90% · 2018 90% · 2019 58% · 2020 59% · 2021 68% · 2022 68% · 2023 72% · 2024 74% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $160k → $699k.
15 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 GUARDIAN SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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 GUARDIAN SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 GUARDIAN SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 69% · 2019 52% · 2020 27% · 2021 36% · 2022 23% · 2023 27% — 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
27% of CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
64% of CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $186.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$186.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Catholic Charities Alliance · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES?
- CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,107,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($985,975). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $4,107,412 in grants to CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $985,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 64 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