Make a difference for the Church.
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.
Why give at all
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, and what it builds lasts: an education here shapes a whole life, and through that life, countless others.
“The Institute has made a great impact on my life. Thanks to my education at the ITI, I have the feeling that I stand on firm ground, that I have a feeling for where ideas come from, and what they lead to. ITI challenged me to get to the bottom of things and aim at truth and goodness.” Dr. Gudrun Kugler (MMF 1999), Member of the Austrian Parliament, human rights spokeswoman, mother of four
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The difference it makes
Your gift, a few years later.
Behind every donation there is eventually a name and a face. These are ITI graduates whose studies were made possible by supporters like you, and what they are doing now:
Slovakia
Fr. Tomas Labanic
Doctorate 2009. Serves as a Byzantine-rite priest in pastoral ministry: a priest for both lungs of the Church.
Rome
Oana Maria Gotia
Graduate 2002. Taught moral theology at the John Paul II Institute for a decade: the theology of love, passed on.
USA
Kyle Mills & Todd Aglialoro
Kyle (2005) founded a Catholic family camp in the Rockies; Todd (1998) directs publishing at Catholic Answers.
Seminaries
Michel Therrien
STL 2003. Formed seminarians and lay leaders as professor and Academic Dean: forming the formators.
Pacific
Fr. Niccolo Florencio
STM 2015. Teaches and serves in campus ministry at Saint Joseph College: theology across the ocean.
Trumau
Elizabeth Schick
STM 2018, now STL student thanks to scholarship donors. “I could never have imagined just how much there is to learn!”
Where your gift can go
Choose what your gift carries.
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
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.
Unrestricted
Where the need is greatest
The most flexible way to help: applied wherever the university needs it most.
Also possible: the Cardinal Schönborn Chair in Dogmatics, endowed in honor of the Cardinal’s 80th birthday, and the Chancellor’s Council, a circle of committed supporters with special closeness to the students — contact Alexander Pachta-Reyhofen, a.pachtareyhofen@iti.ac.at.
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
Ways to give
Tax-deductible in four countries.
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Choose how to give
Card and online giving via 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.
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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).
Bank details at a glance
- Austria Raiffeisenbank Baden · IBAN AT63 3204 5000 0041 4078 · BIC RLNW ATWW BAD · Katholische Hochschule ITI, Schlossgasse 21, 2521 Trumau. Tax-deductible under Austrian law (EStG § 4a); ITI reports your gift to the Finance Ministry.
- Germany HypoVereinsbank UniCredit · IBAN DE55 7002 0270 0015 1114 60 · BIC HYVEDEMMXXX · Förderverein für katholische theologische Bildung e.V., München.
- United Kingdom The Hutton Foundation (registered charity) · C. Hoare & Co. · IBAN GB83 HOAB 1599 0052 5610 00 · Account 52561000, Sort Code 15-99-00.
- United States Online via GiveButter or by mail: ITI USA, 78 Dawson Village Way North, Suite 140, Box 16, Dawsonville GA 30534, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit.
- PayPal Available, but recommended only for gifts up to 100 €; PayPal fees run up to 7%.
Talk to a person
- Austria Sebastian Hoogewerf, s.hoogewerf@iti.ac.at
- Germany Alexander Pachta-Reyhofen, a.pachtareyhofen@iti.ac.at
- USA Betty Hartmann, betty@itiusa.org, +1 805 649 2346
- General administration@iti.ac.at, +43 2253 218 08
Support ITI
A few years from now, your gift has a name and a face.
A scholarship, a professor, a chapel; and a few years later, a priest, a teacher, a founder, a family. That is what giving to ITI does.