Colorado · Nonprofit
The Catholic Alliance
The Catholic Alliance (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,337,100 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ($1,175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Catholic Alliance does
Mission
Fundraising for our customers in such a way to allow donors to experience the joy, power, and grace of giving so that others can encounter jesus christ.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Alliance performs fundraising and donation processing services for the non-profit ministries of the archdiocese of denver. These services include event planning and management, marketing, donor communications and management, and grant solicitation. Alliance processed over 30,000 donations to raise over $25 million for eight ministries of the archdiocese of denver including the archbishop's catholic appeal, st john vianney seminary, bishop machebeuf high school, holy family high school, seeds of hope, catholic charities, redemptoris mater missionary seminary and the office of hispanic ministry.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $121k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 The Catholic Alliance’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
The Catholic Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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 The Catholic Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of The Catholic Alliance's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like The Catholic Alliance
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 The Catholic Alliance: 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 The Catholic Alliance?
- The Catholic Alliance (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,337,100 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ($1,175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Catholic Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,337,100 in grants to The Catholic Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Catholic Alliance?
- THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Catholic Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 5 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