About Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools
Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools centers its grantmaking on need-based tuition scholarships, with recent awards ranging from large school-level scholarship commitments to emergency tuition help for families facing hardship. The foundation’s work is built around Pennsylvania tax credit programs, especially EITC and OSTC, and it uses those channels to move donor support into Catholic and other partner schools that serve eligible students. In the recent-grants list, Independence Mission Schools received $10,133,195 in 2025 for scholarships, while Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School received $3,884,490 in 2024 and $3,100,413 in 2025 for the same purpose. Other large scholarship awards went to The Haverford School, Cardinal O'Hara High School, and St Hubert High School, showing a steady emphasis on tuition access across pre-K through high school. The foundation also supports special education scholarships and short-term emergency tuition assistance, indicating that its funding is aimed at keeping students enrolled when family finances change.
What Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools Funds
Education access is the core of this funder’s portfolio. In 2025, it awarded $2,835,805 to Cardinal O'Hara High School 33018 for scholarships, and in 2024 it gave $1,898,158 to the same school for scholarships, reflecting sustained support for tuition assistance at the school level. Catholic school access is another recurring theme: Father Judge High School received $1,884,875 in 2025 for scholarships, and West Catholic High School 33015 received $1,451,067 for scholarships the same year. The foundation also backs broader partner-school scholarship programs, including a $1,519,579 scholarship grant to Liguori Academy in 2025. Beyond school tuition, its program list includes emergency tuition assistance for families affected by job loss, illness, or other hardship.
How Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools Gives
Typical grants are sizable: the 25th percentile is $46,175, the median is $101,700, and the 75th percentile is $203,990. The recent-grants record shows repeated awards to the same schools across multiple years, including Independence Mission Schools, Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School, The Haverford School, Monsignor Bonner High School, and others, which points to ongoing program funding rather than one-off gifts. Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools is a regular funder, not a donor-advised fund, and it does not fund individuals directly. Several of its active programs are administered through partner schools or through Pennsylvania tax-credit structures, and some accept unsolicited requests while others are administered programmatically.
