Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC
MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,535,984 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($961,945). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations Inc does
Mission
The mission of the mater ecclesiae fund for vocations (the fund) is to increase the number of men and women in catholic religious life by awarding grants to individuals who have vocations to the catholic religious life, but who are prevented from beginning or continiuing their formation by their pre-existing student loans and other financial obligations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The fund operates the st. Joseph student debt relief grant program for men and women with vocations to the catholic religious life (including those monasteries or other communities whose members make vows of poverty, chastity and obedience as well as those in societies of apostolic life, whose members do not make such vows) but who are prevented from beginning or continuing their religious formation due to their pre-existing student loans and other financial obligations. In 2025, the fund awarded 24 new grants. In total 66 men and 126 women were beneficiaries under the program as of 2025. At december 31, 2025 these future grants are reflected in a contingent liability of $1,817,173 for future grant payments.
$491,630 spentof which $349,108 as grants69% of program spendingThe fund conducts an ongoing public education and public awareness campaign to inform members of the catholic faithful about the tremendous problem facing men and women who are prevented from pursuing their vocations to the catholic priesthood and/or religious life by their student debts. In 2025, approximately 4000 catholic households were contacted through a direct mail program (including both postal mail and e-mail) about this program and about the solution developed by the fund. The fund also operates through its website, fundforvocations.org, and on social media, including facebook, instagram, linked-in and youtube. The facebook pages reported 46,500 views and 5,300 interactions. The instagram profile had 370,500 views and 14,600 interactions. Linked-in, the youtube channel and the website also saw strong growth in views and engagement in 2025.
$216,146 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $707,776.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $2.6M (+36%).
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.
97% of MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 7 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
Mary Radford
Executive director
Board chair
Matthew Gerken
Chairman/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $12k → $321k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC’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
MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 85% · 2019 89% · 2020 45% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
61% of MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC'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. Of the $986k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fraser Family Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC?
- MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,535,984 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($961,945). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,535,984 in grants to MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $961,945 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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