Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CATHEDRAL CENTER INC
CATHEDRAL CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,467,180 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($1,682,405). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Cathedral Center Inc does
Mission
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. The cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or experiencing a housing crisis primarily from the milwaukee county area, though may come from any geographic area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter - emergency shelter: in 2025, cathedral center provided 15,232 nights of emergency shelter to 195 women and 50 families comprised of 60 adults and 85 children, resulting in an occupancy rate of 77%. We maintained occupancy, even during a 6 week period in which guests were served at an alternate location, due to significant building damage during historic storms. Shelter services include access to comprehensive case management services that beings with an assessment and inlcues providing guests with tools and resources to reach goals focused on securing safe housing, increasing income and health and well-being. Case managers provide referrals to supportive services in the community, as well as support guests internally with meeting basic needs such as clothing, food and transportation, as well as employment and parent support. Shelter staff provide daily meals, hygiene items and ensure safety and support during their temporary shelter stay.
$1,398,066 spentof which $12,463 as grants58% of program spendingFriendship house - emergency housing: our friendship house program provided an additional 6421 nights of safe emergency housing to 10 women and 14 families with 18 adults and 29 children. Our flexible housing program model is very successful and resulted in 86% of all women and 100% of all families who exited, left to a safe placement. Our flexible emergency housing program includes clinical case management, parenting support, trauma healing, financial management and more. Daily meals are offered, as well as support for parents with their children.
$641,866 spentof which $13,508 as grants$652,960 earned by the program27% of program spendingCase management - housing and community services: in 2025 cathedral center's housing and community services program served 55 unaccompanied women and 89 families with 100 adults and 230 children. Of those served, 98% were successfully supported to avoid literal homelessness, through services that focused on stabilizing their current housing while working on goals to secure long term safe housing. Implementing our flexible housing model of service delivery, women and families receiving this critical prevention support are able to choose the breadth of services they need and the duration in which they will remain active in our program with the goal of helping them to avoid the need for a shelter stay altogether.
$360,893 spentof which $46,210 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,400,825.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $913k to $2.4M (+165%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 34% · 2019 31% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% · 2024 18% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of CATHEDRAL CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Donna Rongholt-Migan
Executive director
Board chair
Elizabeth Sellars
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $315k → $975k.
14 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CATHEDRAL CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CATHEDRAL CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CATHEDRAL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
62% of CATHEDRAL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of CATHEDRAL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CATHEDRAL CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CATHEDRAL CENTER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHEDRAL CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC?
- CATHEDRAL CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,467,180 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($1,682,405). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHEDRAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $6,467,180 in grants to CATHEDRAL CENTER INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHEDRAL CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,682,405 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHEDRAL CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 62 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing