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CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC

CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,176,692 to it, the largest being TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE ($1,176,692). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$807k
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$1.2M
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%

Against its field

CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($421k) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 27 ($364k) Expenses 60 ($253k) Net assets 104 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 13 ($176k) Expenses 72 ($305k) Net assets 110 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 12 ($166k) Expenses 56 ($234k) Net assets 111 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 44 ($598k) Expenses 32 ($136k) Net assets 132 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 31 ($424k) Expenses 89 ($373k) Net assets 117 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 61 ($831k) Expenses 89 ($375k) Net assets 149 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 59 ($807k) Expenses 119 ($500k) Net assets 160 ($3.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (59)Expenses (119)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

58% of CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$949k
’17
$111k
’18
−$129k
’19
−$68k
’20
$462k
’21
$51k
’22
$456k
’23
$307k
’24
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $144k → $219k.

Funder
'17
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Trusted Fraternal Life78%Catholic Charities Foundation Inc78%Abundant Life Christian School Foundation Inc76%Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc73%Aquinas Catholic Schools Foundation Inc73%Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc73%Fox Valley Lutheran High School Foundation Inc73%St Catherines High School Foundation Inc73%

Nationally

The Christian Scholarship Foundation Inc79%Catholic United Financial Foundation79%Our Lady of Victory School Fund Inc79%Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana78%Trusted Fraternal Life78%Collegiate Cultural Foundation Inc78%The Scholarship Granting Organization of the Catholic Community Foundation78%Catholic Charities Foundation Inc78%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Trusted Fraternal Life · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION 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 CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC?
CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,176,692 to it, the largest being TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE ($1,176,692). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,176,692 in grants to CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC?
TRUSTED FRATERNAL LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $1,176,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing