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SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,419 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ($240,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$444k
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$469k
Grants received
$467k
Net assets
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($184k) Expenses 100 ($162k) Net assets 100 ($383k)2021 Revenue 167 ($308k) Expenses 96 ($155k) Net assets 140 ($536k)2022 Revenue 146 ($269k) Expenses 204 ($330k) Net assets 124 ($474k)2023 Revenue 181 ($334k) Expenses 221 ($357k) Net assets 118 ($451k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2025 Revenue 241 ($444k) Expenses 259 ($419k) Net assets 122 ($467k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (241)Expenses (259)Net assets (122)

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
20
$153k
21
$61k
22
$23k
23
$0
24
$25k
25
5.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $61k → $93k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL 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

SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

51%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 38% · 2019 49% · 2020 88% · 2021 71% · 2022 52% · 2023 54%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

33% of SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.

IL
PA
CT
MS
TX

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 9%Fundraising 11%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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 SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,419 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ($240,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $469,419 in grants to SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing