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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,586 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ($67,212). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$379k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$79k
Net assets
$327k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Massachusetts State Council Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation does

Mission

Collection and distribution of donations

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Collected contributions and distributed same to honor deceased veterans, support of pro life programs, assist the archdiocese of boston and various other catholic organizations

    $161,785 spentof which $161,785 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $161,785.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($134k) Expenses 100 ($160k) Net assets 100 ($229k)2018 Revenue 164 ($220k) Expenses 110 ($176k) Net assets 119 ($273k)2019 Revenue 138 ($184k) Expenses 144 ($230k) Net assets 99 ($227k)2020 Revenue 98 ($131k) Expenses 96 ($155k) Net assets 89 ($204k)2021 Revenue 64 ($86k) Expenses 88 ($141k) Net assets 65 ($149k)2022 Revenue 121 ($162k) Expenses 90 ($144k) Net assets 73 ($168k)2023 Revenue 189 ($253k) Expenses 116 ($186k) Net assets 102 ($235k)2024 Revenue 97 ($130k) Expenses 136 ($218k) Net assets 64 ($147k)2025 Revenue 283 ($379k) Expenses 121 ($194k) Net assets 143 ($327k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (283)Expenses (121)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

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 $147k to $327k (+122%).

$229k
$273k
$227k
$204k
$153k
$168k
$235k
$147k
$327k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’17
$44k
’18
−$46k
’19
−$23k
’20
−$55k
’21
$19k
’22
$67k
’23
−$89k
’24
$184k
’25
20
months of
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.

201720182019202320242025
Listed887666
Joined·+4+0·+0+0
No longer listed·41·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $11k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
$11k
funders
1
1
1
2
1
2
1

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.

“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

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

MA
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’21
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $849 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin49% · top quartile
Months of reserve20.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Knights of Columbus · exempt
  • Knights of Coumbus Massachusetts State Council Charity Fund · exempt
  • Massachusetts State Council Knights of Colombus Bldg Assn Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,586 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ($67,212). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $78,586 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,212 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 4 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