Our History
Incorporated in 1997
In 1995, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, the members of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities conceived the idea of linking Catholic philanthropy to the community foundation model whose scope would be national and whose governance would be Catholic laity. Two years later, in 1997, the National Catholic Community Foundation was incorporated in Delaware and in the same year received its 501©(3) tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service.
The co-founders along with the Raskob Foundation were:
- The Amaturo Foundation (FL)
- Catholic Medical Mission Board (New York, NY)
- Daughters of Charity (Emmitsburg, MD)
- Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
- Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Foundation (NY)
- Jesuit Conference (USA)
- Leadership Council of Women Religious (Northwestern States)
- Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate US Province (Washington, DC)
- Order of Carmelites (Darien, IL)
- Order of the Most Holy Trinity (MD)
- Sisters of Christian Charity Mallinckrodt Convent (Mendham, NJ)
- Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (Philadelphia, PA)
- Sisters of Mercy of Baltimore (MD)
- Sisters of St. Benedict (Ridgely, MD)
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (All Provinces)
- Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia (Franciscan Ministries Foundation, Aston, PA)
- Society of the Holy Child Jesus (Drexel Hill, PA)
- St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson, MD)
- Ursulines of Wilmington (DE)
- The Xaverian Brothers USA, Inc.