WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic agencies around the world have collected more than $303 million for Haitian earthquake relief with additional funds continuing to arrive daily.

The amount — totaling $303,362,571 as of Aug. 10 — reflects money from special collections sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, the worldwide network of Caritas Internationalis agencies and a smattering of other Catholic-connected agencies sponsoring ministries in Haiti.

The total is likely to be significantly greater because the figures provided by Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based umbrella organization for Catholic humanitarian and development agencies, exclude money raised by organizations and religious orders and congregations outside of the Caritas network.

Of the amount ,nearly half — $147,473,281 — came from U.S. Catholics. A total of $82,269,255 was donated during special collections in dioceses in the weeks after the quake, according to figures compiled from the USCCB and CRS. CRS has collected an additional $65,204,026 on its own, making the U.S. Catholic community the largest contributor in the world to earthquake relief efforts.

Non-Catholic U.S. nonprofit agencies collected an additional $1.1 billion for Haiti, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported July 9.

The USCCB credited Catholics for their generosity for responding to the needs of Haitians after the Jan. 12 disaster even as they may have been confronted by the worldwide recession. “American Catholics are not just fair, I think they’re more than fair,” said Oblate Father Andrew Small, director of the Collection for the Church in Latin America for the U.S. bishops.