Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,318,796 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,287,895). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$47M
Recipients
97
Contributions on record
$16M
Donors on record
40
Payments out run 3.0x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
- The University of the Artsshared funders
- Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fundportfolio match
- Napa Institute Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.0M.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $319k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
52% of THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA'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 $7.4M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
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 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The University of the Artsshared fundersPA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Napa Institute Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keeley Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ferry Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weisenburger Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catholic Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meigs Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Maguire Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- The Gordon Charter Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 157 organizations near you
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA?
- THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,318,796 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,287,895). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $15,318,796 in grants to THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,287,895 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38funders 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