{"id":78722,"date":"2025-07-01T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=78722"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:14:11","slug":"what-is-the-current-monetary-situation-of-the-vatican-who-were-top-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/07\/01\/what-is-the-current-monetary-situation-of-the-vatican-who-were-top-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the current monetary situation of the Vatican? Who were top donors?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Vatican received around <strong>54.3 million euros in 2024<\/strong>. This money came from donations made to <strong>Peter\u2019s Pence fund.<\/strong><br><br>This fund allocates the vast majority of its donations to the <strong>operational expenses of the Holy See<\/strong>. For example, to cover the Curia\u2019s budget or to maintain the nunciatures.<br><br>The small remaining portion\u2014<strong>in this case, 13.3 million euros<\/strong>\u2014was used for the <strong>Pope\u2019s charitable projects<\/strong> around the world.<br><br>All of this money reaches the Vatican through three main channels: <strong>the parish collection on June 29<\/strong>, <strong>direct transfers on the Peter\u2019s Pence website<\/strong>, and gifts<strong> from individuals left from their wills<\/strong>.<br><br>As for the types of donors, they are usually divided into two major groups. On one hand, <strong>foundations and religious institutions<\/strong>, which contributed <strong>one third of the total donations. This group <\/strong>slightly decreased donations compared to 2023 with their share dropping from 31% to <strong>25%<\/strong>.<br>The second and largest group consists of <strong>dioceses and faithful individuals<\/strong>. In total, they contributed <strong>more than 40 million euros<\/strong>, which amounted to <strong>75% of what the Holy See received in 2024<\/strong>.<br><br>From this latter group, we know which countries the donations came from and how much they contributed. <strong>The ranking is led by the United States<\/strong>, which continues to be the country that donates the most money to the Vatican. Last year, the U.S. donated <strong>nearly 14 million euros<\/strong>.<br><br>In second place, <strong>France<\/strong> follows with <strong>8 million euros<\/strong>, and from there countries like <strong>Italy, Germany, South Korea, and Mexico contributed around 3 million euros<\/strong>. <strong>Spain<\/strong> ranks <strong>ninth<\/strong>, having donated <strong>800,000 euros in 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the summary of revenue, here are the expenses. The expenses of the Vatican exceeded what is received, so to cover them, the Vatican had to rely on assets outside of Peter\u2019s Pence. In 2024, the expenses totaled <strong>74.5 million euros<\/strong>, nearly <strong>30 million less<\/strong> than the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reduction of spending by the Holy See is closely tied to <strong>Pope Francis\u2019s budget cuts<\/strong>, which caused Vatican costs to drop from <strong>90 million to 61 million euros in just one year<\/strong>.<br><br>These numbers reflect Pope <strong>Francis\u2019s papacy<\/strong>, since they were pulled from 2024. Next year, the <strong>first financial report under Pope Leo XIV<\/strong> is expected to be released, a reflection that will fall under his entire pontificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trans. CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican received around 54.3 million euros in 2024. This money came from donations made to Peter\u2019s Pence fund. This fund allocates the vast majority of its donations to the operational expenses of the Holy See. For example, to cover the Curia\u2019s budget or to maintain the nunciatures. The small remaining portion\u2014in this case, 13.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":78719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Eves9Yp80hM","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/braccoltooboloeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/braccoltooboloint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78724,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78722\/revisions\/78724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}