· Public charity
Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc
The Foundation, rooted in the Catholic and fraternal values of stewardship, service, and concern for others, seeks to strengthen individuals, our church, and society by: Providing resources to advance the mission of Catholic parishes and organizations, supporting charitable outreach, educating individuals about philanthropy and planned…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $465,210 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $487,204 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,994 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $342k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Marquette University College of Business | $25,000 |
| St Joan Antida High School | $25,000 |
| St Francis De Sales Seminary | $17,424 |
| New Threads Of Hope Inc | $10,000 |
| Holy Angels Parish | $8,619 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — 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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- P4Partners 4 Hope Tanzania4× · 2021–2024 · $185k · revenue +98% · 37% of their budget
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $108k · revenue +1%
MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $88k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TFTRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFEone grant, 2020 · $108k · revenue +15%
- CRCRISTO REY JESUIT CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue +79%
- DHDOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $28k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Inc 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.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Partners 4 Hope Tanzania ↗
- Who funds TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY JESUIT CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Father Pablos Mission Helpers of the Holy Savior ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEWTHREADS OF HOPE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Trusted Fraternal Life · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Merkel Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 organization 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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