This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Deutscher Caritasverband's own audited annual financial statements for the 2024 financial year, independently audited by RSM Ebner Stolz with an unqualified opinion, report total revenue of 237.4 million euros against total expenditure of 222.8 million euros, including 105,879,459.74 euros in aid delivered through Caritas international, the national association's own foreign relief arm.
Read carefully, that figure is narrower than the size of German Caritas as a whole. The statement covers only the Deutscher Caritasverband e.V. central, national headquarters association itself, its own balance sheet and its roughly 470 average annual staff; it explicitly does not consolidate the finances of the wider network of thousands of separately incorporated diocesan Caritas associations, hospitals, care homes and social service providers that together make Caritas one of Germany's largest employers. A headline figure of 237.4 million euros describes the coordinating body Lorenz Werthmann founded in 1897, not the network it now coordinates, and the statement's own scope note is what tells a reader where the boundary between the two actually falls: a national association setting standards for an employer of hundreds of thousands does not need a budget the size of the network it stands over, only a budget adequate to the coordinating and international work that is properly its own.