How much did CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

fraternal

2021

—

2022

milwaukeelove

2023

strongucc'shealthbuildmilwaukeelove

2024

strongucc'shealthbuildhumanitarian reliefmilwaukee

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k5 grants · $115k
$50k–250k5 grants · $342k

$37,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

Archdiocese of Milwaukee$109,333
Catholic Relief Services$80,334
United Community Center$52,000
Partners 4 Hope Tanzania$50,000
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee$50,000
Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity$37,500
St Joan Antida High School$25,000
Marquette University College of Business$25,000
St Francis De Sales Seminary$17,424
New Threads Of Hope Inc$10,000
Holy Angels Parish$8,619

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +199% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+199%

+9%

Still filing today

42%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

P4
Partners 4 Hope Tanzania
4× · 2021–2024 · $185k · revenue +382% · 37% of their budget
UC
United Community Center
2× · 2023–2024 · $108k · revenue +111%
Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity
3× · 2022–2024 · $88k · revenue +129%

Funded once

CF
CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE
one grant, 2020 · $108k · revenue +4%
CR
CRISTO REY JESUIT CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue +25%
DH
DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2018 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago's purpose is to partner with mission-driven people and organizations across Cook and Lake counties and to witness a message of mercy and hope to a world in need through service.

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Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud is a nonprofit human services organization that in 2024 served 47,220 individuals of all faiths and beliefs across Central Minnesota.

Human Services

Catholic Charities

Motivated by christ's love, we bring hope to life, especially for those most in need.

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Catholic Charities of Central and

Inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…

Human Services

Associated Catholic Charities Inc

Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in need.

Human Services

Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services

Mercy Home Care

The Mission of Mercy Home Care, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in a home care setting. Committed to a common mission, the providers of Mercy Home Care continue the…

Human Services

McAuley Seton Home Care

The Mission of McAuley Seton Home Care, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in a home care setting. Committed to a common mission, the providers of McAuley Seton Home…

Health

Catholic Charities of Tennessee Inc

Following christ's example, we recognize the dignity of all people and serve our neighbors.

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Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of

Respond to changing social needs in order to help and create hope for the most poor and vulnerable.

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Catholic Health System

The Mission of the Catholic Health System, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in an acute care, long term care, and home care setting. Committed to a common mission,…

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Catholic Human Services Inc

To enhance the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the and the most unlike its peers is Father Pablos Mission Helpers of the Holy Savior. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,281,538Human Services$402,500Housing & Shelter$87,500Religion$10,779Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Archdiocese of Milwaukee CatholicWI24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Catholic Financial Life · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Partners 4 Hope Tanzania.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473058560 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Partners 4 Hope Tanzania, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc?

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CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph