Minnesota · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,605,875 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD M SCHULZE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($42,802,880). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $50M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) does
Mission
The Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 2015 to assist catholic preschools and kindergarten through eighth grade elementary and middle schools in their quest to achieve excellence and increase enrollment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In its mission to assist catholic preschool-8th grade schools in minnesota achieve excellence, cscoe partners with principals at each school using a one size fits one customized approach that fosters engagement, collaboration, and inclusive decision making. Through this approach, cscoe shares innovative ideas, sound business practices, proven strategies, and financial resources that help each school meet its specific business, academic, and spiritual goals. Cscoe invests in excellence by providing cost-effective, centralized support in the areas of leadership and professional development, problem-solving that addresses each schools particular challenges, and the administration and optimal utilization of assessment testing. Areas of special interest include programming for parents and teachers to address students mental health needs; best-in-class literacy training for kindergarten-3rd grade students and their teachers; professional development that fosters a data-driven approach to student academic growth; implementing science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) initiatives; supporting the specific needs of preschool students, middle school students, and exceptional…
$9,441,452 spentof which $4,464,717 as grants93% of program spendingCscoe utilizes both direct financial support and the sponsorship and administration of centralized programs in its mission to help catholic elementary schools increase enrollment. Specifically, cscoe provides grants to establish, expand, and improve preschools; to conduct direct marketing programs tailored to individual schools; and to create and/or enhance school websites and social media strategies. Cscoe has also provided financial grants to recognize and reward schools that have achieved specific enrollment milestones. Centralized enrollment-related support has included implementing community-wide advertising and marketing initiatives; providing resources for latino outreach and enrollment efforts; and training to assist schools with creating and implementing their enrollment plans. Success in our endeavor to increase enrollment has been demonstrated through consistent preschool-8th grade enrollment increases and school expansions.
$664,812 spentof which $2,459,779 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,106,264.
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.
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 $3.8M to $2.1M (−44%).
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.
103% of CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Mr Steve Ryan
Director - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $40k → $10M.
11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $5k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe)). These are real filings, and they are not money CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) raised.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 94% · 2019 99% · 2020 91% · 2021 92% · 2022 91% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
100% of CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)'s grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)'s funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)?
- CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,605,875 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD M SCHULZE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($42,802,880). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $49,605,875 in grants to CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE), 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE)?
- THE RICHARD M SCHULZE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,802,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 37 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