(Arch)diocesan Contributions
Approximately 95 percent of all donations to the Retirement Fund for Religious (RFR) benefit elderly and frail religious. Only five percent is spent on administration and fund raising, much lower than the amount spent by many fund-raising organizations. Funds are awarded to the motherhouse or administrative headquarters of a religious institute. Consequently, though your diocese may have benefited from the ministry of women and men religious, financial assistance will only be awarded in your diocese if a religious institute is headquartered there. Please be assured that the sisters, brothers, and religious order priests who served in your diocese do benefit when you support the Retirement Fund for Religious.
Listed by state below are the (arch)dioceses that participated in the 2009 parish-based appeal for Retirement Fund for Religious and the amounts they submitted.