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ITI receives no state funding. Every priest formed, every scholarship given, every seminar held exists because someone decided to give. That someone can be you.

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Why your gift matters

A university carried by its friends.

ITI does not receive, and cannot receive, state funding. Its income comes solely from gifts and student payments — the university lives on the continued support of private individuals, foundations, and Catholic bishops. Your donation is not a nice extra. It is the foundation.

Scholarships

Your donation allows someone to study

Every accepted student already receives the Standard ITI Scholarship. Need-based aid decides whether a seminarian, a young family, or a student from Eastern Europe can come at all.

Faculty Chair

Keep the professors teaching

Faculty gifts support the professors who teach from the sources in small seminars — the heart of how ITI works.

Chaplaincy

The liturgical heart

Funds the daily Roman and Byzantine liturgies and student pilgrimages — the prayer that carries the study.

Cardinal Schönborn Chair

A chair in Dogmatics

Endows the new Academic Chair in Dogmatics established in honor of the Cardinal’s 80th birthday.

Unrestricted

Where the need is greatest

The most flexible way to help: applied wherever the university needs it most.

Chancellor’s Council

A circle of committed supporters

A membership program with special closeness to the students. Contact Alexander Pachta-Reyhofen, a.pachtareyhofen@iti.ac.at.

What ITI is

A pontifical institute in Trumau, Austria, founded by Pope St John Paul II: around 30 graduates a year across six programs, formed in theology from the primary sources, in both lungs of the Church, in a residential community of students, families, and professors.

Because ITI is small, every gift is visible: a scholarship has a face, a funded chair has a name.

Your gift travels with a graduate — into a parish, a classroom, a family, for decades.

The difference it makes

Your gift, a few years later.

Every donation becomes a person. These are ITI graduates whose studies were made possible by supporters like you — and what they are doing now:

Slovakia

A priest for both lungs

Fr. Tomas Labanic (doctorate 2009) serves as a Byzantine-rite priest in pastoral ministry.

Rome

Teaching the theology of love

Oana Maria Gotia (2002) taught moral theology at the John Paul II Institute for a decade.

USA

Camps, books, apologetics

Kyle Mills (2005) founded a Catholic family camp in the Rockies; Todd Aglialoro (1998) directs publishing at Catholic Answers.

Seminaries

Forming the formators

Michel Therrien (STL 2003) formed seminarians and lay leaders as professor and Academic Dean.

Pacific

Theology across the ocean

Fr. Niccolo Florencio (STM 2015) teaches and serves in campus ministry at Saint Joseph College.

More stories

See what graduates become

Priests, professors, founders, families — the full alumni page tells their stories.

After ITI: Alumni Stories
“I could never have imagined just how much there is to learn!”

Elizabeth Schick, STM 2018, now STL student — her studies are made possible by scholarship donors

Ways to give

Tax-deductible in four countries.

01

Choose how to give

Card and online giving via the Donate Now page; US donors can give directly through GiveButter. Bank accounts in Austria (Raiffeisenbank Baden), Germany (HypoVereinsbank), and the UK (C. Hoare & Co.). PayPal works too, though fees make bank transfer better for gifts over 100 €.

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Designate your gift

Add a donation code — Scholarship, Faculty, Chaplaincy, Cardinal, or Unrestricted — to direct your gift where you want it to work.

03

Claim your deduction

Donations are tax-deductible in Austria (ITI registers your gift with the Finance Ministry), Germany (via the Förderverein für katholische theologische Bildung e.V., Munich), the USA (ITI USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit), and the UK (via the Hutton Foundation).

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