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STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,870 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ($690,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$879k
Net assets
$1.3M
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What State Council Charities Knights of Columbus does

Mission

The primary mission of the state council charities is to provide support for the catholic diocesan program.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Charities provides support to catholic diocesan programs in fifteen different catholic dioceses in texas.

    $842,402 spentof which $807,579 as grants
    71% of program spending

  2. Charities provides other donations to various organizations or programs such as the special olympics, wheelchair mission, and infirmed priest.

    $137,386 spentof which $100,775 as grants
    12% of program spending

  3. Charities provides education grants to individuals that are to be used for education in a univeristy, college, junior college, technical school, business school, or seminary. Charities also provides parochial grants to designated catholic schools within each diocese.

    $101,381 spentof which $66,558 as grants
    9% of program spending

  4. Charities received donations for disaster relief in the current year, and provide support to affected individuals for repair and maintenance.

    $97,308 spentof which $95,261 as grants
    8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,178,477.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 81 ($1.2M) Expenses 90 ($1.1M) Net assets 106 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 82 ($1.2M) Expenses 93 ($1.2M) Net assets 106 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 74 ($1.1M) Expenses 86 ($1.1M) Net assets 111 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 83 ($1.2M) Expenses 93 ($1.2M) Net assets 105 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 80 ($1.2M) Expenses 92 ($1.1M) Net assets 104 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 73 ($1.0M) Expenses 84 ($1.1M) Net assets 103 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 93 ($1.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.3M) Net assets 106 ($1.3M)
'17'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (93)Expenses (105)Net assets (106)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $1.9M (−7%).

$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.0M
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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
2019
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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$188k
’17
$42k
’19
$10k
’20
−$10k
’21
$22k
’22
$3k
’23
−$9k
’24
$21k
’25
1.5
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.

'17'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed1413141211131314
Joined··+7+0+2+8+2+6
No longer listed··623625
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $603k → $10k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
5
3
5
3
2
2
2
2

From the IRS filings of STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS’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

STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.

79%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 85% · 2019 34% · 2020 95% · 2021 85% · 2022 82% · 2023 81% — 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.

Where its funders are

STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.

CT
NC
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

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 Texas

Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc79%Shepherd Them All Inc79%Society of the Catholic Apostolate Gloria Dei Region79%Saint Cecilia Kofc Charitable Fund78%St Anthony Catholic School Charitable Foundation78%Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Inc78%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston77%Knights of Columbus77%

Nationally

Catholic Charities Diocese of Norwich Inc82%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Lexington Inc80%Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc79%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Worcester79%Catholic Charities of California79%Shepherd Them All Inc79%Society of the Catholic Apostolate Gloria Dei Region79%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Las Cruces Inc78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Knights of Columbus Tx St Council · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?
STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,870 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ($690,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $878,870 in grants to STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STATE COUNCIL CHARITIES KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 7 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