Iowa · Nonprofit
The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque
The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,405 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($236,375). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $382k
- Net assets
- $147M
What The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque does
Mission
Multiply charitable resources for maximum benefit to our Catholic community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Catholic Foundation in the Archdiocese of Dubuque (CFAD) assists donors who wish to make a meaningful and lasting impact for Catholic organizations and those served by those organizations through the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. CFAD serves those in the 30 counties in northeast Iowa that make up the Archdiocese of Dubuque in three ways: charitable planning, investing, and grantmaking services.CFAD is separate from, yet collaborative with, the Archdiocese Corporation and holds donor advised funds and endowments for donors and Catholic parishes, schools, cemeteries, social services and other Catholic organizations. Statement continued on Schedule O.We work with donors who want their Catholic values perpetuated in a legacy gift and help them structure that in the best way for them, their family and the organization(s) they want to benefit. CFAD works with Catholic organizations, their donors and donors' advisors through its legacy planning services. In FY2025, 2 new organizations began the Legacy Planning Toolkit program through CFAD. More than 1,200 individuals sought information through CFAD's services regarding charitable giving along with 131 attending charitable…
$5,918,786 spentof which $4,733,057 as grants$1,001,041 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,918,786.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $45M to $87M (+95%).
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.
29% of The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Michele Brock
Executive Director
Board chair
Louis Hagarty
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $116k.
8 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque’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
The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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
75% of The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
87% of The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque'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 $48k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $335k 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
The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 119 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque?
- The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,405 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($236,375). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $382,405 in grants to The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $236,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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