The Catholic Foundation of Central
Orlando, FL · EIN 26-0879378. Reported 64 grants totalling $2,730,747 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Catholic Foundation of Central, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 35% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,800 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $310,275. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diocese of Orlando | Orlando, FL | $958,991 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc | Orlando, FL | $513,654 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Orlando, FL | $316,975 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Lake Wales, FL | $279,536 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Brendan Catholic Church | Ormond Beach, FL | $64,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Diocese of Youngstown | Youngstown, OH | $53,455 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Catholic High School | Melbourne, FL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catholic Campus Ministry at Ucf | Oviedo, FL | $43,121 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Ormond Beach, FL | $41,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Holy Cross Church | Batavia, IL | $36,800 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fr Lopez Catholic High School Inc | Daytona Beach, FL | $36,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Winter Park, FL | $32,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Orlando, FL | $26,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cristo Rey Orlando High School Inc | Orlando, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Pauls Outreach Inc | Mendota Hts, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Lakeland, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St John Vianney Catholic Church | Orlando, FL | $21,780 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cristo Rey Network | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School Melbourne | Melbourne, FL | $19,480 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Mary Catholic Church | Rockledge, FL | $17,592 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lourdes Academy Catholic School | Daytona Beach, FL | $15,075 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Waterleaf Womens Center Inc | Aurora, IL | $10,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Eucharistic Congress Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Providence College | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Samaritan Village Inc | Orlando, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St James Catholic Cathedral | Orlando, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Joseph Catholic School Palm Bay | Palm Bay, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marmion Academy | Aurora, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Oviedo, FL | $6,875 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Daytona Beach, FL | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chesterton Academy of Orlando Inc | Oviedo, FL | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Leadership Institute | Malvern, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Diocesan Council of Orlando | Apopka, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Bernard Parish | Holmes Beach, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Shepherd Catholic School | Orlando, FL | $5,813 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Florida Diaper Bank Inc | Winter Garden, FL | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 36 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Diocese of Orlando
Operating and clergy support - Holy Spirit Catholic Church Lake Wales
Parish support and ministry to the needy - Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc
Operating support for those in need - Holy Spirit Catholic Church
Operating support and care for those in need in Polk County - St Joseph Catholic School
Tuition Assistance & General Support - St Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Tuition assistance and parish support
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 9 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $576,376 | $19,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $638,140 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $464,289 | $7,250 |
| 2024 | 23 | $1,051,942 | $13,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
93% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
7 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 17 grants totalling $73,357 to The Catholic Foundation of Central. That is 25% of the 28 funders we can see giving to it. Those 7 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
4 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km O'donnell Family Foundation Inc | Florida | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Flaig Foundation | Delaware | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Verizon Foundation | New Jersey | $1,280 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arthur J Gallagher Foundation | Illinois | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Acahand Foundation | Delaware | $292 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $242 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jpmorgan Chase Foundation | New York | $43 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Catholic Foundation of Central's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 29 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 50 East Robinson Street, Orlando, FL, 32801.
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