Later - analogous to the Federal Republic of Germany - fields of activity such as nursing services, care and family assistance were added, homeless, disabled and refugee assistance (for example during the Hungarian popular uprising of 1956), social counselling, the Caritas shops, mother-child houses and finally (mobile) hospice [3] work and employment projects.

In 2015, the Austrian Caritas supported more than 72,000 people with advice and also financially in its 36 social counselling centres and disbursed around four million Euros in emergency aid.

Each individual Caritas Institution is a separate legal body and acts as a supporting organisation for social services.

They organise visiting services, senior meetings, benefit events, discussion groups, flea markets, Caritas showcases, holiday programmes for children, individual financial help, refugee aid, house collections and much more.

Caritas Austria ran 71 shelters for homeless persons in 2024 with a total of 2,080 beds and 53 retirement and care homes, as well as 12 mother and child centres with accommodation for 203 mothers and their children and 71 Caritas social counselling centres offering advice and help to people in need.

[2] In 2022, Caritas Austria supported 508 foreign aid projects worldwide with a total volume amounting to 67.4 million euro.

[5] Due to the strong dependence on (state) service fees, the self-definition as an aid organisation is partly doubted and Caritas is described as "a company with an annual turnover of over 900 million euros".