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Raskob Foundation for Catholic

Wilmington, DE · EIN 51-0070060. Reported 1,036 grants totalling $36.1M to 561 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Raskob Foundation for Catholic did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,500 and $30,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $8,124,944. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Every organization it funded

All 561 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which this organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this foundation actually has a relationship with.

184 of 561 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 40%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

• Catholic Relief Services Inc $100,000 · 2023
  TOWARD EXPENSES TO PROVIDE BASIC EDUCATION AND CARE TO UNDERSERVED GIRLS AND BOYS IN RURAL AFGHANISTAN.
• Fadica (foundations & Donors Interested in Catholic Activities) $100,000 · 2023
  TOWARD EXPENSES TO LAUNCH AND SUSTAIN "THE FADICA CATALYTIC IMPACT PLATFORM", TO CREATE AND IMPLEMENT IMPACT-CATALYZING SOLUTIONS FOR A MORE VITAL CATHOLIC CHURCH AND COMMON GOOD.
• Global Solidarity Fund $100,000 · 2023
  TOWARD THE SALARY/BENEFITS AND OFFICE EXPENSES OF A GRANT MANAGER POSITION IN GENEVA TO MANAGE THE GSF STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES.
• Medicines for Humanity $96,000 · 2022
  TOWARD EXPENSES OF THE MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH SERVICES IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO & SUDAN, TO PROVIDE INTENSIVE TRAINING IN HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION TO STRENGTHEN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SYSTEMS, NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMMING, AND EDUCATION ON THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MALNUTRITION.
• Social Service for Childhood Well Being (sesobel) $90,000 · 2023
  "TOWARD THE COST TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND BASIC NEEDS FOR PHYSICALLY AND/OR INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE IN LEBANON.
• Social Service for Childhood Wellbeing (sesobel) $90,000 · 2022
  TOWARD THE COST OF ESSENTIAL MEDICATIONS NEEDED FOR CHILDREN.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 346 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Raskob Foundation for Catholic has 293 of them, worth $13.8M. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 43% of this one's giving went to organizations in Delaware. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

How to approach this foundation

1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Delaware.
3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Raskob Foundation for Catholic's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 4019, Wilmington, DE, 19807. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

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