I think of the Catholic Church as a franchise, like McDonalds. Each church raises money and pays a portion back up the chain for corporate advertising, projects and governance
The problem is that there is a basic conflict between supporting you parish (and its needs, which in NY parishes probably involves crumbling buildings) and supporting the bureaucracy. When parishes are slated for closing because they’ve been bled dry, those left without a parish often turn their backs (very publicly nowadays) on the bureaucracy.