How much does Trusted Fraternal Life give?

Trusted Fraternal Life reported 9 itemized grants totaling $356,712, out of $1,149,097 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Trusted Fraternal Life fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Human Services (17%), Philanthropy (8%).

Who are Trusted Fraternal Life's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc ($1.2M), National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc ($215k), Cristo Rey Jesuit Milwaukee High School Inc ($197k).

Does Trusted Fraternal Life fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Trusted Fraternal Life based?

Trusted Fraternal Life is based in WI.

Trusted Fraternal Life

Trusted Fraternal Life at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Trusted Fraternal Life

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Trusted Fraternal Life?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.

Trusted Fraternal Life's mission is serving communities, providing financial security and enhancing quality of life.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$278k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.7MHuman Services$468kPhilanthropy$234kReligion$151kArts & Culture$98kRecreation & Sports$62kHealth$20kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 9 grants below total $356,712, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,149,097 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $792,385 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
Recipient	Amount
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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $458k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

-10%

+17%

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

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

NC
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +3%
UC
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +111%
IF
IRISH FESTIVALS INC
2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +19%

Funded once

ND
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE INC
one grant, 2018 · $55k
FO
FEDERATION OF CROATIAN SOCIETIES
one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +17%
SC
SETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2018 · $51k

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.

04Its field

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.

St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…

Education

Catholic Cemetery Association of Racine Inc

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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Franciscan Community Benefit Services

MISSION - TO celebrate life and serve with joy. Vision - to provide access to Catholic high schools and offer programs for higher education and career readiness for young women from the Chicago area.

Religion

Wisconsin Foundation United Church of Christ Inc

Wisconsin foundation united church of christ, inc. is a catalyst for positive change in the life of the united church of christ in wisconsin; promotes a culture of generosity; and connects people across the ucc in working for a more just…

Religion

Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corporation

The mission of the franciscan sisters of chicago service corporation ("fscsc") is to celebrate life and serve with joy. (continued on schedule o).

Philanthropy

Madonna University

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

Education

The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education

Friends of Catholic University in Chile Inc

Promoting and furthering educational opportunities of higher education in chile. provide scholarships for students of the catholic university in chile and to facilitate the transfer of resources, knowledge and experience from the u.s. to…

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Catholic Charities Foundation

Support the mission and social services programs of catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha, inc.

Religion

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

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha Inc

In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.

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How this is measured

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

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

17/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

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

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI45.3× 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 Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc · Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Trusted Fraternal Life funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trusted Fraternal Life. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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