Minnesota · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE
CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($76,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Catholic Defense League does
Mission
The Catholic Defense League endeavors to protect, preserve and defend the religious and legal rights of catholic groups and individuals by educating catholics and the public about these rights and their sources under federal and state constitutions, natural and common law, statutes and other law and to counter discriminatory practices and defamation against the catholic church, its members and other religious groups and their members
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 415 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 415 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE: 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 CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE?
- CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($76,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $76,300 in grants to CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $76,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC DEFENSE LEAGUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing