How much did TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE grant in FY2024?

TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE reported 9 grants totaling $1,149,097 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE based?

TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE is based in WI.

TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE

Trusted Fraternal Life, a fraternal benefit society, facilitates consolidation within the fraternal life insurance sector while preserving the unique identities and traditions of its member organizations.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$278k

Largest

01What you fund

0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$458kArts & Culture$98kRecreation & Sports$62kEducation$42kReligion$38kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$14kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$852k

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

milwaukee

2019

alzheimer'sirish culture

2020

womenexcellencemount marybuildingvaluespersonal

2021

civicstudieseducateholylandbusinessesscholarshipsbuilding

2022

whsfgroundscultural educationalhispanic scholarshipenvironmentmilwaukeeyear-round

2023

hopetomorrowmilwaukee

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

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $27k
$10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$250k+1 grant · $278k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9B

Total assets

Largest grants

CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC$277,817
ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY$20,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$11,693
CAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE$10,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILW & WAUK CO$9,400
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER$6,410
UA RESISTANCE FOUNDATION$5,892
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ACADEMY$5,500

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 (FY17–24, $458k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 20 repeat orgs$446k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 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

$2.3M

$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+72%

Still filing today

45%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

UC
United Community Center Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +111%
Special Olympics Wisconsin
5× · 2019–2023 · $62k · revenue +24%
IF
Irish Festivals Inc
2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +13%

Funded once

ND
Notre Dame School of Milwaukee
one grant, 2018 · $55k
FO
Federation of Croatian Societiesgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +474%
SC
Seton Catholic Schools
one grant, 2018 · $51k

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.

St Mary's University

To foster the formation of people in faith and educate leaders for the common good through community, education, and academic excellence. see schedule o.

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Madonna University

The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christian humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for diversity, and a commitment to serving others…

Education

Felician University

Educating a diverse student population within a liberal arts framework.

Education

Catholic Cemetery Association of Racine

The management and general maintenance of a cemetery or cemeteries in or near the city of racine, wisconsin, for the use and benefit of such members of the roman catholic congregations of said city and county of racine as may acquire…

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Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic liberal arts institution of higher learning offering undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs with approximately 2,000 students annually.

Education

University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier catholic research university with academic offerings from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels. we are a diverse community committed, in the marianist tradition, to educating the whole person and…

Education

University of Saint Francis of Fort Wayne Indiana Inc

Rooted in the Catholic and Franciscan traditions of Faith and Reason, the University of Saint Francis engages a diverse community in learning, leadership, and service.

Education

University of Notre Dame du Lac

The University of Notre Dame is a Catholic academic community of higher learning, animated from its origins by the Congregation of Holy Cross. The University is dedicated to the pursuit and sharing of truth for its own sake. As a Catholic…

Education

The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter

Friends of Catholic University in Chile

Promoting and furthering educational opportunities of higher education in chile.

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University of Mary

A private institution of higher education offering graduate and undergraduate degrees.

Education

The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1844, Saint Mary's College promotes a life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic appreciation, religious sensibility, and social responsibility. Saint Mary's is a Catholic, residential, women's,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Society of Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

13%

5,204/40,976

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

27 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)

27/27

Grantees still filing

20/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,195,492Other$891,389Human Services$457,644Arts & Culture$97,725Recreation & Sports$62,350Education$42,000Religion$37,500

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI45.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc

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 TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE 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: Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 204780760 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 Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc, 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 3 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Trusted Fraternal Life?

Find your warmest path to Trusted Fraternal Life 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.

TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Trusted Fraternal Life?

More from the funding graph

TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Trusted Fraternal Life?

More from the funding graph