Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 303 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,358,684 to it, the largest being BEDFORD FALLS FOUNDATION ($35,350,000). 178 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $425M
- Funders on record
- 303
- Grants received
- $192M
- Net assets
- $658M
What The Catholic University of America does
Mission
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, The Catholic University of America is committed to being a comprehensive catholic and american institution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship programs: financial aid to students includes scholarships, remitted tuition and stipends for both undergraduate and graduate study. 22,616 scholarships were awarded during fiscal year 2025. Grants: the university makes occasional charitable contributions to public charities. During fiscal year 2025 the university also awarded approximately 2,770 emergency aid grants to students.
$133,404,970 spentof which $133,404,970 as grants33% of program spendingInstruction and departmental research: The Catholic University of America is an independent catholic institution of higher education located in washington dc, offering programs of study leading to bachelors', masters', doctorate, and professional degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, religious studies, and several professional areas including engineering, architecture, social service, nursing, music and law. The current enrollment of the university is approximately 6,017 of which 4,167 are undergraduate and 1,850 are graduate students (fall 2025). The university offers 49 doctoral programs, 88 masters programs and 74 bachelors programs. The faculty consists of 282 full-time and 372 part-time members. Of the full-timefaculty 93% hold doctoral or professional degrees.
$114,206,024 spent$232,018,419 earned by the program29% of program spendingAuxiliary services: university dormitories consist of 18 residence halls which provide living quarters for 1,908 students. Occupancy rate as of fall 2025 was 91%. The university also provides recreational facilities, dining services, parking, and other selfsupporting faculty, staff and student services. Community renewable energy facilities: the university entered into a long term operating lease agreement with an unrelated party to construct and operate community renewable energy facilities on a portion of the university's west campus.
$42,260,094 spent$48,184,849 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther program services - sponsored research: the university received sponsored research awards spanning all disciplines. Library programs: there are over 1.6 million volumes in the general library system and in the law library. The Catholic University of America press publishes about 35-40 books each year in theology, philosophy, literature, history and political theory. Student services program: a number of offices exist to provide services to students, both for academic and personal needs. These offices include, among others, the administration office, enrollment services, career services, student activities, and campus ministry. International study is available in africa, asia, australia, central and south america, and europe. Campus ministry provides many opportunities for community service in the washington d.c. Area and in other parts of the united states and abroad.
$108,446,740 spent$53,591,797 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $398,317,828.
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 2017 to 2018, from $638M to $751M (+18%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% 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
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 59 funders to 116 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $42M.
39 of 303 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Napa Institute Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 303 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
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 36% · 2021 49% · 2022 33% · 2023 19% — 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
40% of THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA's funding base is broadening — from 59 funders to 116 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$57k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
- Department of Defense$16k
- Department of Transportation$12k
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 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
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 Washington, D.C.
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
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- The Catholic University of America Foundation · exempt
- Albert E Farone & Angela T Farone Foundation · exempt
- Washington Research Library Consortium · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trust (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA?
- THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 303 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,358,684 to it, the largest being BEDFORD FALLS FOUNDATION ($35,350,000). 178 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 303 organizations giving $192,358,684 in grants to THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 178 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA?
- BEDFORD FALLS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 303 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