Ohio · Nonprofit
Ignatian Solidarity Network
Ignatian Solidarity Network (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,313 to it, the largest being MARY CATHERINE BUNTING FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $540k
- Net assets
- $828k
What Ignatian Solidarity Network does
Mission
The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) networks, educates, and forms advocates for social justice animated by the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the witness of the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador and their companions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING: JUSTICE FORMATION, NETWORKING, AND ACTION In FY 20242025, ISN provided education and formation programs for students, educators, and institutional leaders, supporting skill development, relationship-building, and action grounded in Catholic Social Teaching and Ignatian spirituality. -- Arrupe Leaders Summits Leadership formation gatherings for high school students and educators focused on faith-based justice engagement. -- Ignatian Justice Summit (IJS) Convening supporting formation, shared analysis, and collaboration for coordinated justice efforts across the network. -- Presentations and partner engagement across the network Educational programming and relationship-building activities with schools, parishes, and universities, including Presentation High School, Saint Louis University (SLU), and DeMatha Catholic High School. -- Jesuit Integral Ecology Assembly (JIEA) Participation in formation and collaboration efforts centered on integral ecology and care for creation. --Student Ecology Summit Program convening supporting ecological formation and practical action planning. -- Pilgrims of Hope for Creation (California) Regional gatherings supporting…
$382,645 spent29% of program spendingIGNATIAN FAMILY TEACH-IN FOR JUSTICE In FY 20242025, ISN continued its flagship convening program that brings together students, educators, faith leaders, and community members for formation grounded in Ignatian spirituality and Catholic Social Teaching, and for public engagement on justice issues. -- Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (IFTJ) Annual multi-day gathering providing formation, community-building, and opportunities for public witness and advocacy. -- Virtual IFTJ Online programming offered to expand access to Teach-In formation and content. -- Justice on the Mainstage (Podcast) Audio distribution of Teach-In mainstage speaker presentations to extend year-round educational access.
$338,044 spent26% of program spendingMARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS In FY 2024-2025, ISN welcomed more than 195,000 website visitors and nearly 65,000 subscribers to our regular social justice newsletters. ISNs growth in reach also encompasses a host of social media platforms, with more than 27,000 followers on Facebook, more than 17,000 on Twitter, more than 13,000 on Instagram, and nearly 1,500 on YouTube. ISNs website is a hub for online campaigns, in-person program registration, and various resources related to Catholic Social Teaching and Ignatian spirituality to social justice work. Education for Justice, acquired by Ignatian Solidarity Network in January 2019, has become a core element of ISNs resource offerings. As of June 30, 2025, more than 1,160 Catholic educators and ministers are active members of Education for Justice through over 700 individual and institutional memberships. Through Education for Justice, the Ignatian Solidarity Network adds three to five new relevant resources each month to a digital library totaling over 2,500 total items, including prayers, discussion guides, lesson plans, and much more.
$286,314 spent22% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAMMING In FY 20242025, ISN offered additional programs and events that supported engagement across the Ignatian network through seasonal formation, public advocacy, convenings, and commemorative experiences. -- Ignatian Advocacy Madness Seven-week justice engagement campaign that involved 12,000 people in educational, prayer, and advocacy activities across the network. -- 2025 Lenten Series: Take Heart Seasonal formation series providing daily spiritual reflection and justice engagement opportunities during Lent. -- Rise Up reflection series Weekly spiritual reflections on the Sunday lectionary readings through a justice lens/ -- Ignatian Mass for Life Prayer and worship gathering in Washington, D.C., supporting reflection and public witness grounded in a consistent ethic of life. -- Ignatian Voices for Justice Podcast launch Podcast initiative expanding year-round formation through conversations connecting Ignatian spirituality, Catholic Social Teaching, and justice work. -- Ignite / 20th Anniversary
$200,568 spent15% of program spendingMIGRATION JUSTICE PROGRAMMING In FY 20242025, ISN advanced migration justice programming through community accompaniment, leadership development, public witness, and partnerships with Jesuit and Catholic organizations supporting migrants and refugees. -- Migration Justice Summit Convening focused on formation, coordination, and shared strategies related to humane immigration policies and practices. -- Undocu Summit Community-building and leadership development gathering for undocumented, DACAmented, and mixed-status students. -- Jesuit Migration Network McAllen Participation in Jesuit migration efforts at the U.S.Mexico border to strengthen collaboration and solidarity. -- Red Jesuita con Migrantes (RJM) Gathering Engagement with Jesuit migration partners to support coordination and shared commitments across borders. -- Light in the Darkness Vigils Prayer-centered public witness opportunities emphasizing human dignity and solidarity.
$101,936 spent8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,309,507.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $1.7M (+66%).
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: 2021 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of Ignatian Solidarity Network’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Christopher Kerr
Executive Director
Board chair
Annie Fox
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $96k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Ignatian Solidarity Network’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
Ignatian Solidarity Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 Ignatian Solidarity Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 98% · 2021 57% · 2022 66% · 2023 68% — 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
25% of Ignatian Solidarity Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
Ignatian Solidarity Network draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Ignatian Solidarity Network has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Ignatian Solidarity Network
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ignatian Solidarity Network?
- Ignatian Solidarity Network (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,313 to it, the largest being MARY CATHERINE BUNTING FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ignatian Solidarity Network have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $540,313 in grants to Ignatian Solidarity Network, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ignatian Solidarity Network?
- MARY CATHERINE BUNTING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ignatian Solidarity Network find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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