Almost 94 percent of all donations are applied directly to the mission of the National Religious Retirement Office. However, grant awards are made according to need that is derived from a complex formula. Grants are awarded to the motherhouse or administrative headquarters of a religious community. Consequently, though your diocese may have benefited from the ministry of religious women and men who taught, provided health care or other services, grants will only be awarded in your diocese if a religious community is headquartered there. Please be assured that the sisters, brothers, and religious order priests who ministered in your diocese benefit when you support the Retirement Fund for Religious appeal.
Listed below are (arch) dioceses that participated in the 2006 parish-based appeal for Retirement Fund for Religious and the amounts they submitted.