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Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation

Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,329,596 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,469,850). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$12M
Funders on record
58
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$26M
28/58 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation does

Mission

Through its fundraising activities in the United States, Foundation assists the Ukrainian Catholic University in meeting its educational goals and financial needs and supports its successes as one of the top universities and the premier Catholic educational institution in Ukraine.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Foundation's program services include:* Institutional Support Helps Ukrainian Catholic University in Ukraine to meet present needs and develop endowments and funding streams for the future.* Information and Education Promotes public awareness and distributes material about Ukrainian history, culture and spirituality, fostering a deeper knowledge in the United States of the Ukrainian Catholic University.* Exchange Program Facilitates opportunities both for Ukrainian students and faculty to study or intern in the United states and for North American teachers , professors, and other professionals to volunteer in Ukraine.*Teaching Materials Program Collects books and other educational resources in the United States to help rebuild libraries of Catholic institutions in Ukraine.

    $4,515,496 spentof which $4,318,572 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,515,496.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.5M) Expenses 100 ($5.8M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 72 ($4.7M) Expenses 84 ($4.9M) Net assets 89 ($12M)2019 Revenue 96 ($6.2M) Expenses 93 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2020 Revenue 112 ($7.2M) Expenses 108 ($6.3M) Net assets 114 ($15M)2021 Revenue 24 ($1.5M) Expenses 23 ($1.4M) Net assets 122 ($16M)2022 Revenue 189 ($12M) Expenses 115 ($6.7M) Net assets 139 ($19M)2023 Revenue 129 ($8.3M) Expenses 167 ($9.7M) Net assets 137 ($18M)2024 Revenue 97 ($6.3M) Expenses 127 ($7.4M) Net assets 147 ($20M)2025 Revenue 193 ($12M) Expenses 110 ($6.4M) Net assets 192 ($26M)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (110)Net assets (192)Peer revenue range

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 $14M to $19M (+36%).

$13M
$12M
$14M
$19M
$18M
$21M
$22M
$23M
$28M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 296 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$643k
’17
−$229k
’18
$816k
’19
$928k
’20
$171k
’21
$5.5M
’22
−$1.4M
’23
−$1.1M
’24
$6.1M
’25
5.6
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.

Chief executive

Annetta Hewko

Executive Director

Board chair

Taras Szmagala

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed10108101010131311
Joined·+2+1+3+0+1+5+2+0
No longer listed·23101222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $782k → $468k.

19 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

85% 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 Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation.

61%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 86% · 2019 69% · 2020 83% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 16% — 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

40% of Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 15 states.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
NC
DC
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 119 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin49% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 11%Fundraising 19%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Angel One LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ukrainian Catholic University 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 Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation?
Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,329,596 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,469,850). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation have?
IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $12,329,596 in grants to Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,469,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 58 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