For Foundations
Streamline Your Funding Efforts
When you have a Catholic foundation, it can be a real challenge to find grantees who are a good fit for your mission. With little or no staff and a lot of time constraints, you need a way to quickly identify relevant projects. The Catholic Funding Guide allows you to do this and more. With the Guide, foundations can find funding opportunities, connect with peers, and stay up-to-date on Catholic philanthropy trends and best practices. Whatever your mission, whatever your funding goals, the Guide is the premier tool for your philanthropic journey.
Find Funding
Opportunities
Streamline your funding process by locating your next giving opportunity a lot faster. With our innovative platform, Amplify, you can search specific projects in need of funding, and reach out directly to grantees to express interest.
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- Geographic location
- Interest area
- Populations served
Connect With
Peers
Find potential partners and joint funding ventures when you search our database of 2100+ funders who support Catholic organizations. Many of these funders are difficult to find elsewhere.
Review Funder Information:
- Mission
- Contact information
- Application deadlines
- Board members
- Funding history
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Research
Subscribers with a paid plan now have access to research surrounding current trends in the Catholic philanthropy sector, specifically in the areas of global solidarity, parish life, poverty, and education. You can make informed funding decisions, plan strategic investments, and more with this exclusive data.
“The Catholic Funding Guide is a wonderful resource. We use it for our grantees and applicants to get access to more funders, and then we also encourage our applicants to use the Amplify section to post their projects so that other funders know about them”
Theresa Robinson Raskob
Foundation for Catholic Activities
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Catholic Funding Guide has helped Catholic organizations connect with funders for more than 35 years. The Guide is a project of FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities), the leading philanthropic peer network serving as a catalyst for a vital Catholic Church, Catholic ministries, and the common good.
The 1,800+ funders in our database have a history of supporting Catholic organizations with a wide variety of causes, from social services to education to evangelization and beyond. We regularly add new funders, continuing to expand the connections available to our subscribers.
We obtain our information from a variety of sources, most notably IRS 990 filings. We also have direct relationships with funders who provide their information directly to the Catholic Funding Guide. Many of the funders in the Guide do not have websites, and some are difficult to find through public sources such as Form 990s.
The Catholic Funding Guide is a great way for funders to connect with great Catholic organizations, expand your reach, cut down on grant applications that are not a good fit, and grow your funding network.
Funders can claim their profile in our funder database to provide grantseekers with updated contact and grant information. Providing updated information helps grantseekers determine if and how to reach out or submit a proposal. It also enables funders to search for other funders who may be interested in partnering.
Amplify is a feature of the Catholic Funding Guide designed to streamline the connection between funders and grantseekers. Grantseekers post projects in need of funding, and funders search and review projects for ones that match their interests. Funders can then communicate directly with grant seekers who post projects on Amplify.
Catholic organizations submit projects in need of funding. Funders can search by area of interest, location, and more. Amplify can automatically email you when a new project aligns with your interests. When funders identify a project of interest, they can reach out directly to the organization for more information, or to invite them to apply for a grant.