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VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC

VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,352 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($289,350). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$157k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$638k
Net assets
$17k
14/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Voice of the Faithful Inc does

Mission

Provide a prayerful voice, attentive to the spirit through which the faithful can actively participate in the governance and guidance of the catholic church.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Member development and action meetings generated support and sponsors for votf programs, facilitated project collaboration with other reform groups, and provided project reports to members. Work included preparation and distribution of information highlighting various votf projects. We made monthly and quarterly contacts and reported to members significant news and information regarding action plans and collaborative efforts.

    $100,387 spent$157,371 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Mission and goals projects - completed annual review and report of diocesan financial transparency and accountability, which was distributed to all us bishops and diocesan cfos as well as to the members and media. Maintained/updated our diocesan financial database portal enabling catholics to assess their diocese's financial reporting. Completed plans for conducting the 2025 reviews of diocesan financial transparency and diocesan safe environment/child protection programs. Maintained reference and advocacy materials for child protection on the website.

  3. Member support and communications projects - prepared and distributed semimonthly electronic newsletter to members about votf actions and catholic news. Provided speakers on votf projects for affiliate meetings. Distributed specialized emails alerting members to breaking news on catholic church reform and issues. Alerted members to petition issues and opportunities for action on church reform through regular emails prepared by staff. Alerted members via emails about votf national and local meetings, catholic adult education courses (both on-site and online) and speaker presentations related to church reform. Posted new reports about clerical sexual abuse on web site.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,387.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($371k) Expenses 100 ($269k) Net assets 100 ($250k)2019 Revenue 85 ($316k) Expenses 121 ($325k) Net assets 96 ($241k)2020 Revenue 79 ($292k) Expenses 123 ($331k) Net assets 81 ($202k)2021 Revenue 84 ($313k) Expenses 116 ($312k) Net assets 81 ($203k)2023 Revenue 95 ($354k) Expenses 138 ($372k) Net assets 133 ($334k)2024 Revenue 40 ($147k) Expenses 124 ($335k) Net assets 59 ($146k)2025 Revenue 42 ($157k) Expenses 106 ($287k) Net assets 7 ($17k)
2018201920202021202320242025
Revenue (42)Expenses (106)Net assets (7)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 2023 to 2024, from $336k to $146k (−56%).

$268k
$253k
$237k
$245k
$336k
$146k
$35k
2018201920202021202320242025
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’18
−$9k
’19
−$39k
’20
$941
’21
−$18k
’23
−$188k
’24
−$129k
’25
1.4
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

Leslie Scales

Executive director

Board chair

Bradley A Pritts

Chair/president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

2018201920202021202320242025
Listed8777857
Joined·+1+0+3·+4+3
No longer listed·203·71
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $33k → $131k.

5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL 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

VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% 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 VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC.

45%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 77% · 2019 78% · 2020 55% · 2021 62% · 2022 75% · 2023 79% — 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

56% of VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

96% of VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL 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 $25k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states.

IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
MD
DE
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC's revenue fell 58% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−82% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

35% of spending goes to programs.

Program 35%Management 48%Fundraising 17%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC?
VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,352 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($289,350). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $638,352 in grants to VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $289,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC find more funders?
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 22 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