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Fidelis Center for Law & Policy

The fidelis center was established to educate and defend the constitutional rights of citizens, specifically on issues related to life, faith and family. The center seeks to faithfully promote catholic social doctrine in american civic life through education, litigation and related activities.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$380,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,503,092
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Fidelis Center for Law & Policy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$1.9M67%
FY20231$1.4M0%
FY20222$1.3M50%
FY20211$1.4M0%
FY20202$1.3M50%
FY20191$1.3M0%
FY20181$1.1M0%
FY20171$1.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$10MPublic Benefit$380kReligion$10kEmployment$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Harold J Cassidy and Associates$10,421,7758n/a
Community News Foundation$380,00014%
And Then There Were None$56,20011%
United States Catholic Conference$10,0001n/a
Dream Factory Inc$5,0001n/a

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Fidelis Center for Law & Policy?

Find your warmest path to Fidelis Center for Law & Policy through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Fidelis Center for Law & Policy

How much does Fidelis Center for Law & Policy give?
Fidelis Center for Law & Policy reported 3 grants totaling $1,939,292 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fidelis Center for Law & Policy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (96%), Public Benefit (3%), Religion (0%).
Who are Fidelis Center for Law & Policy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Harold J Cassidy and Associates ($10M), Community News Foundation ($380k), And Then There Were None ($56k).
Does Fidelis Center for Law & Policy fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fidelis Center for Law & Policy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Fidelis Center for Law & Policy based?
Fidelis Center for Law & Policy is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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