Indiana · Nonprofit
Confraternity of Penitents
Confraternity of Penitents (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,835 to it, the largest being Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation ($47,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $712k
What Confraternity of Penitents does
Mission
Evangelization of people to religious conversion by a life of prayer and penance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since beginning in 2003, over 1600 people have contactd us and began a four year formation program of religious study. There are currently 304 members associated with us. We have a website with religious resources for all. We currently run one public religious retreat per year.
$24,709 spent$56,631 earned by the program8% of program spendingWe have three discernment houses. These houses, one for women, and two for men, in Fort Wayne, IN, which provide a quiet, service oriented, prayful, Franciscan, Catholic environment for persons discerning a religious vocation or marriage, or who want to live in an environment which fosters religious growth.
$102,147 spent$61,433 earned by the program33% of program spendingWe have a religious gift shop which specializes in Franciscan religious piety and other religious items which are meant to foster prayer, penance, holiness, and conversion.
$180,234 spent$213,090 earned by the program59% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $307,090.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $404k to $707k (+75%).
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.
67% of Confraternity of Penitents’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $5k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Confraternity of Penitents’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Confraternity of Penitents leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Confraternity of Penitents.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Confraternity of Penitents's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Confraternity of Penitents receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Confraternity of Penitents
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Confraternity of Penitents: 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 Confraternity of Penitents?
- Confraternity of Penitents (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,835 to it, the largest being Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation ($47,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Confraternity of Penitents have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $52,835 in grants to Confraternity of Penitents, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Confraternity of Penitents?
- Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $47,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Confraternity of Penitents find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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