Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE
THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,000 to it, the largest being THE FERN ODESSA CHARITABLE TRUST ($522,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $851k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $899k
- Net assets
- $980k
What The Network Dba Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice does
Mission
To provide non-profit, faith-based education and advocacy to advance public policies that promote the common good in keeping with principles of catholic social justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1. Lobbying of the federal legislative and executive branches to advance catholic social justice principles by calling on elected officials to pass and enforce responsible legislation that promotes the common good.2. Organizing regional team members and the public to engage with their communities in efforts to advance policies that promote social, economic, environmental, and civil justice in keeping with catholic social justice teachings.3. Monitoring and assessing the public policy process and the actions of government officials to enable network and the public to hold those officials accountable for their actions as they relate to network's faith-grounded mission and priorities.
$909,081 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $909,081.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.9M (+60%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Laurie Carafone
Executive director
Board chair
Catherine Ferguson Snjm
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $245k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE’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 NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 84% — 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
THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k 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.
Organizations like THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Network Education Program · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE: 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 NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE?
- THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,000 to it, the largest being THE FERN ODESSA CHARITABLE TRUST ($522,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $899,000 in grants to THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE?
- THE FERN ODESSA CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $522,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 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