· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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