Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga

What Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga does

C\u00e1ritas Diocesana de M\u00e1laga is the official charitable arm of the Catholic Diocese of M\u00e1laga, Spain, and part of the 70-diocese C\u00e1ritas Espa\u00f1ola confederation, C\u00e1ritas Europa, and Caritas Internationalis. Its mission is to accompany people experiencing poverty and social exclusion, anchored by a network of 149 C\u00e1ritas parroquiales (parish offices) distributed across M\u00e1laga province and the autonomous city of Melilla, with over 50 parish offices concentrated in M\u00e1laga city. The organization delivers a comprehensive portfolio of social services: reception and accompaniment, food assistance, supported housing and shelters (Hogar Pozo Dulce, Calor y Caf\u00e9, Ema\u00fas, Casa de acogida for mothers with children, Colichet residence for people with HIV, apartments for elderly at Tom\u00e1s de C\u00e3zar and Obispo Ram\u00f3n Buxarrais), employment training through the Centro de Formaci\u00f3n Sagrada Familia, psychological support, legal aid via volunteer lawyers, and care for elderly at the El Buen Samaritano gerontological center. Specialized programs target migrants and people in irregular administrative situations (a major focus, with 57% of C\u00e1ritas Espa\u00f1ola's 2025 beneficiaries being migrants), families and children, and people experiencing homelessness, with a single coordination entry point (Puerta \u00danica).

The underlying "technology" is a human-delivered parish-based service model supplemented by an SSL-encrypted website donation portal (preset donations of \u20ac30/\u20ac50/\u20ac100 or custom amounts, monthly/quarterly/semi-annual/annual cadence), bank transfers across five Spanish banks, Bizum (codes 38047 and 10945 for Venezuela emergency), and a Whistleblower Software-powered canal de denuncia. No proprietary technology platform, software product, or AI capability is described.

The business model is donation-dependent and non-commercial. Revenue streams comprise (1) individual donor contributions (socios/donantes) via recurring subscription or one-time gifts \u2014 the largest private stream and the fastest-growing (+25% YoY at the confederation level); (2) legacies and bequests; (3) corporate and entity donations with Spanish tax deduction benefits (40\u201350%); (4) public administration funding (29% of C\u00e1ritas Espa\u00f1ola's 2025 income, \u20ac151.8M); and (5) international cooperation funding channeled via C\u00e1ritas Espa\u00f1ola for emergencies such as the Venezuela earthquake and DANA recovery. The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer (through the 149 parishes) combined with community-led volunteer engagement (reception/acogida, migration, homelessness). No products or services are sold to beneficiaries; aid is provided free of charge to vulnerable populations.

Name

Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga

Legal name

CARITAS DIOCESANA DE MALAGA

Website

https://caritasmalaga.es

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

C\u00e1ritas Diocesana de M\u00e1laga is the Catholic Diocese of M\u00e1laga's official charitable arm, operating 149 parish offices across M\u00e1laga province and Melilla to deliver food aid, housing, employment training, legal aid, elderly care, and emergency response to people in poverty, migrants, the homeless, and other vulnerable populations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Services

NAICS

Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Civic and Social Organizations (8134)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Denominational & Ecclesiastical Governance Bodies (Dioceses, Synods, Conferences) (BPAGAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

International & Local Implementing NGOs (HLAJAKAD), Nonprofit / Faith-Based CCRCs (HLADAEAC)

Keywords

• Social assistance services
• Charitable donations
• Homeless support services
• Elderly care services
• Migration support programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Málaga

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations from individuals: Recurring and one-time donations from individual donors (socios/donantes), collected via the website, bank transfer, Bizum, and direct debit. Individual donations represent the largest private funding stream. Cáritas Española received more than 378 million euros in private contributions in 2025 (10% more than previous year). Specific donation amounts offered on the website include 30 euros, 50 euros, 100 euros, or custom amounts; billed monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.
2. Legacies and bequests: Individuals can include Cáritas in their will (testamento sólido), leaving a portion of their estate. The organization promotes this through dedicated landing pages and explains legal details of inheritance law, legados, and succession rights.
3. Corporate and entity donations: Businesses, foundations, SMEs, and religious institutions make donations targeting general purposes, international cooperation, or emergency response. The organization also offers employee giving programs.
4. Public administration funding: Public administrations (administraciones públicas) contributed 151.8 million euros to Cáritas confederation programs in 2025 (29% of total income). Funding supports various social programs including housing, employment, food aid, and migration services.
5. International cooperation funding: Cáritas Española receives and channels international development and humanitarian aid funding, including for emergencies (e.g., Venezuela earthquake response, DANA recovery). Cáritas Española released 300,000 euros for Venezuela earthquake emergency, later increased to 1 million euros.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga is the official charitable organism of the Catholic Diocese of Málaga. It delivers a comprehensive portfolio of social services to people experiencing poverty and social exclusion through a network of 149 parish-based Cáritas parroquiales and specialized centers across the diocese. Core offerings include reception and accompaniment, food and housing assistance, employment training, psychological and legal aid, elderly care, homeless services, family support, migrant regularization, and humanitarian emergency response. The organization is funded primarily by individual and corporate donations, legacies, and public administration grants.

Product overview

Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga is a charitable social organization affiliated with the Catholic Church that offers a comprehensive portfolio of social services rather than a technology product. The core offerings include donation programs (monthly subscriptions and one-time gifts), volunteering opportunities across 155 parish locations, and direct social assistance through multiple service lines: reception and accompaniment, employment training through the Sagrada Familia center, psychological support, family and childhood programs, elderly care (including El Buen Samaritano gerontological center and senior apartments), homeless services (Hogar Pozo Dulce, Calor y Café, Emaús), legal aid, and emergency response programs. The organization also publishes the annual Memoria report and Utopía newsletter. Related services include legacy/estate planning programs and corporate partnership opportunities for businesses and institutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Acogida y Acompañamiento Social reception and accompaniment services providing active listening, demand identification, social situation assessment, and personalized help planning for people in need. Delivered through the parish Cáritas network across the Diocese of Málaga.
• Formación para el Empleo Employment training programs including job orientation, socio-labor skill workshops, active job search support, self-employment guidance, and support for cooperatives, delivered through the Sagrada Familia training center for socio-labor insertion of people in social disadvantage.
• Apoyo Psicológico Psychological support services for situations of loneliness, uprooting, violence, and other vulnerability factors, offered through parish Cáritas locations across the diocese.
• Atención a Familia e Infancia Family and childhood support programs including family classrooms, parent schools, home organization workshops, family mediation, housing assistance, school material support, and social integration projects for vulnerable families.
• Acompañamiento a Personas Mayores Elderly accompaniment services through the gerontological center El Buen Samaritano, supported housing apartments (Tomás de Cózar and Obispo Ramón Buxarrais), and parish coordination projects for older adults requiring care and companionship.
• Sostenimiento del Hogar Home sustainability assistance helping vulnerable families cover essential household utility expenses including electricity and water bills.
• Personas sin Hogar Homeless support services including Hogar Pozo Dulce (shelter), Calor y Café (night shelter), and Emaús (day center), coordinated through the Puerta Única entry point office for people without housing.
• Servicio Jurídico Legal services with volunteer lawyers offering expertise to support and guide vulnerable people in legal matters including documentation, regularization, housing, employment, and prison-related issues.
• Programa de Emergencias Emergency response programs activated for natural disasters and humanitarian crises, including the Venezuela earthquake response providing food, water, sanitation, healthcare, shelter, and protection services through the Cáritas Venezuela network.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2,132,112 people accompanied by Cáritas confederation in 2025 across Spain and internationally
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Delegación Diocesana de Migraciones (Diocesan Migration Delegation)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga works jointly with the Diocesan Migration Delegation on migration-related programs, including the extraordinary regularization process of 2026. Both organizations organize joint assemblies (with Málaga Acoge) in Ronda and Marbella to inform and accompany migrants through regularization procedures.
• Delegación Diocesana de Juventud (Diocesan Youth Delegation)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga co-organizes the Campo de Trabajo Lázaro (CTL) youth volunteer program with the Diocesan Youth Delegation and Pastoral Vocacional. This annual summer program has been running for 25 years, placing young volunteers in social service centers across the diocese.
• Pastoral Vocacional (Vocational Pastoral)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Joint organizer of the Campo de Trabajo Lázaro youth volunteer program alongside the Diocesan Youth Delegation and Cáritas Diocesana.
• Cáritas Española (Spanish Cáritas Confederation)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga is part of the Cáritas confederation of 70 Cáritas diocesanas in Spain, coordinated by Cáritas Española. Cáritas Española released 300,000 euros (later increased to 1 million) for the Venezuela earthquake emergency, channeled through the diocesan network. The confederation publishes the annual Memoria Confederal and coordinates national campaigns (e.g., Doble X tax campaign).
• Cáritas VenezuelacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga channels donations and emergency aid to Cáritas Venezuela following the June 2026 earthquakes. Cáritas Venezuela operates through 37 Cáritas diocesanas and 600+ Cáritas parroquiales, delivering aid including food kits (4,481 kits, ~72,000 people), hygiene kits (2,220), water (120,000+ liters), and medical supplies (73,356 items) across affected states.
• Cáritas Internacional / Caritas InternationalisminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga operates within the global Cáritas network through Caritas Internationalis and Cáritas Europa. The international network coordinates humanitarian response across borders, as demonstrated in the Venezuela earthquake operation.
• Málaga AcogecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Málaga Acoge collaborated with Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga's migration team in organizing informational assemblies in Ronda and Marbella for the extraordinary regularization process. Collaboration was critical in ensuring no migrant was left out of the June 2026 deadline for filing applications.
• Social service centers and projects across the Diocese of MálagacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Cáritas places volunteers from the Campo de Trabajo Lázaro in 15+ partner social centers and projects including Adoratrices, Cotolengo, Hermanitas de los Pobres, Hogar Pozo Dulce, Hogar San Carlos, Buen Samaritano, San Juan de Dios, Casa Betania, Colichet, and comedores Santa Teresa and Santo Domingo. These organizations provide service sites for youth volunteers.
• Conferencia Episcopal Española (Spanish Episcopal Conference)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga is the official charitable organism of the Catholic Church at the diocesan level, operating under the authority of the Bishop of Málaga and in coordination with the Conferencia Episcopal Española. The Church provides institutional backing, moral authority, and access to parish infrastructure.
• Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)minorOthers · 1 January 2026Cáritas is subject to AEPD oversight for data protection compliance. Users can file complaints with the AEPD if their data protection rights are not adequately addressed by Cáritas.
• Fundación FOESSAminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Cáritas participates in the publication of the FOESSA Foundation's reports on social exclusion in Spain. The IX Informe FOESSA (2025) provides analytical data on food insecurity (12% of households), moderate food insecurity (5.7%), and severe food insecurity (1.4% — 686,000 people going without food for days), which informs Cáritas's programmatic response.
• Hermanas Filipenses (Filipense Sisters)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga jointly manages a shelter home for mothers with children with the Hermanas Filipenses in the city of Málaga. This partnership combines Cáritas's social service expertise with the religious community's care infrastructure.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Cáritas Barcelona: Another major diocesan Cáritas providing identical service portfolio — social reception, employment training, housing support, migration programs — within the Diocese of Barcelona, useful operational and budgetary benchmark.
• Málaga Acoge: Local Málaga NGO that Cáritas collaborates with directly on migration regularization; provides overlapping reception, documentation, and integration services to migrants in the same geography as Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga.
• ACCEM: Spanish NGO providing refugee assistance, employment support, and housing for vulnerable populations — operates overlapping services with Cáritas Málaga's migration, employment, and homelessness programs across multiple Spanish regions.
• Manos Unidas: Catholic Spanish NGO focused on international development cooperation and emergency humanitarian response — overlaps with Cáritas Málaga's Programa de Emergencias and international cooperation funding streams.
• Cáritas Madrid: Sibling diocesan Cáritas operating in the Diocese of Madrid; runs the same parish-based service model (acogida, employment, elderly, homelessness) and competes for Cáritas Española's national funding allocations.
• CEAR (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado): Specialist Spanish NGO focused on refugee and asylum-seeker support — directly competing with Cáritas's migration and regularization programs, particularly in legal aid and integration services where Cáritas Málaga grew 58% YoY.

Others

• Fundación FOESSA: Research foundation linked to Cáritas Española that publishes social-exclusion analysis; Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga draws on FOESSA's IX Informe (2025) to design program response — adjacent ecosystem participant rather than direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Cruz Roja Española: Spain's largest humanitarian organization delivering overlapping social services — food aid, homelessness programs, migration support, employment training, and emergency response — with similar geographic coverage across Spanish provinces.
• Cáritas Española (Confederación): The national confederation that Cáritas Diocesana de Málaga belongs to; coordinates 70 diocesan Cáritas across Spain, channels public/private funding, and operates the same brand of faith-based social services at a national scale.

Regional players

• Hermanitas de los Pobres: Religious congregation operating residential elderly care homes that Cáritas Málaga places volunteers in via the Campo de Trabajo Lázaro; comparable faith-based nonprofit providing elderly care services in Spain.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/caritas_malaga
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/caritasmalaga
• Facebookfacebook.com/caritasmalaga
• Instagraminstagram.com/caritas_malaga
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/c%C3%A1ritas-diocesana-de-m%C3%A1laga

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

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