Catholic Schools Foundation

About Catholic Schools Foundation

Catholic Schools Foundation Inc. concentrates its giving on Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Boston, with funding that combines scholarship aid and school support across a tightly defined local footprint. The foundation’s recent grants show repeated support for schools serving low-income students, including Lawrence Catholic Academy and Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy in Dorchester, both of which appear multiple times in the grant list. Other recurring recipients include Trinity Catholic Academy in Brockton, Cathedral High School in Boston, and Lowell Catholic School in Lowell. Its mission centers on helping families with demonstrated financial need keep children in Catholic schools, with programs that reach elementary, high school, and pathway-transition points. The foundation also funds support for students facing homelessness, new immigrant and Hispanic communities, and emergency family hardship. Recent grant records show a mix of scholarship support and non-scholarship support, indicating that the foundation funds both direct tuition assistance and school-facing resources. The grant list also includes Boston-area partners such as the Catholic Community Fund and the Catholic Schools Office, reflecting a funding model that supports both individual schools and broader regional Catholic school infrastructure.

What Catholic Schools Foundation Funds

A major theme is tuition support for low-income Catholic school students. Recent grants include $1,833,575 to Lawrence Catholic Academy in Lawrence for scholarship and non-scholarship support, and $1,290,601 to Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy in Dorchester for the same purpose. The foundation also uses scholarship funds to support high school access, as seen in awards to Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton and Cathedral High School in Boston. Another clear area is continuity of Catholic schooling. The Continuum Scholarships program supports a K-12 pathway from participating elementary schools through high school graduation, and the GO Scholars program provides tuition assistance for students moving from CSF-sponsored elementary schools to Catholic high school. The foundation also supports students experiencing housing instability through the Horizons Scholarship Program, and provides aid to low-income, new immigrant communities through the Hispanic Recruitment Initiative & New Immigrant Scholarship Fund.

How Catholic Schools Foundation Gives