This week the Chronicle of Philanthropy published it annual Philanthropy 400, those U.S. organizations that raised the most money in the last year. According to reporters Noelle Barton and Holly Hall, who wrote the piece accompanying the list, “America’s big charities expect fundraising to rise in 2011, but the increase won’t come close to making up what they lost in the downturn.”
Philanthropic giving in the U.S. still has yet to recover from the losses in the 2008 recession. Most of this year’s gains, they reported, were seen by international charities that receive in-kind gifts and by community foundations and organizations that receive donated stock.
“When those groups are excluded from analysis, the increase in gifts was flat,” they said.
Catholic or Catholic-related organizations in the Philanthropy 400, their ranking and their total 2010 gifts are:
10. Catholic Charities USA, $793,815,584
15. American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, $659,370,821
51. Catholic Relief Services, $294,287,000
78. University of Notre Dame, 221,615,902
110. Catholic Medical Mission Board, $177,207,054
144. Christian Appalachian Project, (Ky.), $131,586,590
147. Father Flanagan Boys’ Home (Neb.), $130,737,000
159. Boston College, $120,537,000
160. St. Mary’s Food Bank (Ariz.), $119,703,302
214. Georgetown University, $90,858,000
221. Catholic Healthcare West (Calif.), $86,286,000
288. Marquette University, $60,461,194
340. Covenant House, $51,195,438
394. Villanova University, $43,483,000
Catholic institutions that made last year’s list but fell from the top 400 this year are Fordham University, Le Moyne College and St. Louis University.
According to the report, “charities in the Philanthropy 400 are an important bellwether for the state of giving, and how American donors are responding to the bad economy. The nonprofits on the list raise $1 of every $4 contributed to nonprofit causes.”
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Can you give me more links that support the statement: World wide, the Catholic Church feeds more people, clothes more people, houses more people, cares and teaches more people than all other charities combined.”
I need to back up this assertion for an article I’m submitting to a web site about human dignity.
Mr. Smith: You can find a huge number of stats to support this claim at the Caritas website, http://www.caritas.org. Caritas is the global umbrella organization for Catholic relief and assistance. You may have to dig in other places for supporting and additional data.
Good luck with your article.