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CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,847,489 to it, the largest being FRANKLIN ST GIVING TREE FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$17M
Funders on record
80
Grants received
$29M
Net assets
$27M
57/80 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Catholic Leadership Institute does

Mission

Catholic Leadership Institute provides bishops, priests,religious, deacons and lay persons in the roman catholic church with world-class, pastoral leadership formation and consulting services that strengthen their confidence and competence in ministry (see website for more), enabling them to articulate a vision for their local church, to call forth the gifts of those they lead, and to create more vibrant faith communities rooted in jesus christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Consulting: consulting services are unique and varied from a mutually shared vision serving bishops, priests and parishes in furtherance of the mission stated above.since its founding in 1991, Catholic Leadership Institute has served over 150 dioceses, 300 bishops, 3,000 priests, 4000 parishes and 40,000 lay leaders providing the consulting and training services outlined here on this page.

    $4,617,928 spent$781,703 earned by the program
    57% of program spending
  2. Next generation parish: this multi-year experience provides the pastor and his community with the opportunity to assess its greatest opportunities and strengths, develop a plan to move into the future, and most importantly cultivate a deeper missionary spirit throughout the community.

    $2,723,658 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Custom training: customized training solutions are provided to meet diocesan and parish leadership objectives. This includes the administration of the disciple maker index survey which is a tool that gathers comprehensive feedback about parishioners' spiritual growth through 75 questions. The resulting insight is invaluable: it enables parish leadership to make data-driven decisions regarding priorities that will ultimately help parishioners grow in faith. As of october 31, 2025, 919,938 parishioner responses have been recorded in the disciple maker index survey.

    $497,633 spent$128,433 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  4. This includes convocations and support for connecting priests to greater resources.

    $309,190 spent$2,700 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,148,409.

02The 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 ($5.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 86 ($4.8M) Expenses 86 ($4.0M) Net assets 123 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 103 ($5.7M) Expenses 89 ($4.1M) Net assets 168 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 194 ($11M) Expenses 101 ($4.6M) Net assets 339 ($12M)2021 Revenue 177 ($9.8M) Expenses 87 ($4.0M) Net assets 502 ($18M)2022 Revenue 148 ($8.2M) Expenses 117 ($5.4M) Net assets 581 ($21M)2023 Revenue 166 ($9.2M) Expenses 180 ($8.3M) Net assets 607 ($22M)2024 Revenue 190 ($10M) Expenses 229 ($11M) Net assets 606 ($22M)2025 Revenue 316 ($17M) Expenses 262 ($12M) Net assets 760 ($27M)
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Revenue (316)Expenses (262)Net assets (760)Peer revenue range

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 $6.5M to $13M (+102%).

$3.8M
$4.7M
$6.5M
$13M
$18M
$22M
$23M
$23M
$29M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 298 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$947k
’17
$805k
’18
$1.6M
’19
$6.1M
’20
$5.8M
’21
$2.8M
’22
$910k
’23
−$26k
’24
$5.5M
’25
15
months of
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

Daniel Cellucci

Pres. & CEO(frm 5/25);CEO(to 4/25)

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171615212225252728
Joined·+3+2+8+4+6+3+4+7
No longer listed·43233326
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $572k → $4.7M.

27 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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

CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

48% 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 CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE.

12%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 35% · 2019 31% · 2020 31% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 29% — 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

43% of CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 18 states in all.

WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
OK
LA
TX
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 10%Fundraising 22%

Governance

20
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 24 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
PA
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
NM
TN
SC
HI
LA
MS
GA
FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: 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 LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,847,489 to it, the largest being FRANKLIN ST GIVING TREE FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $28,847,489 in grants to CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
FRANKLIN ST GIVING TREE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 80 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