Indiana · Nonprofit
CHARITABLE ALLIES INC
CHARITABLE ALLIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,595 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($1,038,550). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $135k
What Charitable Allies Inc does
Mission
To provide at greatly reduced rates(low bono) or for free (pro bono) excellent legal and legal education services to nonprofit organizations and their stakeholders (I.e. Founders directors, members and donors) through our charitable legal aid and educational
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide legal aid litigation representation. Many nonprofit organizations are unable to afford excellent, experienced nonprofit legal services. Charitable allies provides these services at greatly reduced (low bono) rates generally, and for free (pro bono) when the case/matter is in specific furthermore of the public interest and related to the core issues of governance tax exemption and board liability. Our clients range the nonprofit spectrum, from the entities working in the human services space to churches, from community centers to social service agencies and from membership organizations to social welfare entities, among many others. In this litigation-related program we pre-litigation negotiation, litigation regulatory investigations, contract disputes and nearly any other common legal issue for which a nonprofit organization would require litigation-related representation.
$440,284 spent$683,687 earned by the program40% of program spendingProviding legal aid transactional and governance representation. Many organizations are unable to afford excellent, experienced nonprofit legal services. Charitable allies provides these services at greatly reduced (low bono) rates generally, and for free (pro bono) when the case/matter is in specific furtherance of the public interest and related to the core issues of governance, tax exemption and board liability. Our clients range the nonprofit spectrum, from the entities working in the human services space to churches, from community centers to social service agencies and from membership organizations to social welfare entities, among many others. We assist with a wide variety of legal needs such as accreditation audits, tax exemption and governance, real estate transactions, employment law, contract analysis, and nearly any other common legal issue for which a nonprofit organization would require transactional and governance legal representation.
$575,147 spent$1,062,095 earned by the program52% of program spendingCharitable allies provides educational training to help clients understand and comply with complex tax-exempt organiztion laws and sources of liability for nonprofits and their stakeholders. We often partner with other nonprofit service providers or conveners (such as community foundations, professional associations, and insurance providers) to present continuing education and professional development events on topics such as changes or developments in the law, individual liability, and labor employment policies that effect the daily operation of every nonprofit. We also regularly contribute articles and other materials to publications directed at the nonprofit sector.
$97,033 spent$53,749 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,112,464.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $721k to $1.7M (+138%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Zachary Kester
Director, CEO
Board chair
Tina Whittington
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $281k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHARITABLE ALLIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHARITABLE ALLIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHARITABLE ALLIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHARITABLE ALLIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 38% · 2019 98% · 2020 73% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of CHARITABLE ALLIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
92% of CHARITABLE ALLIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $119k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like CHARITABLE ALLIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARITABLE ALLIES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARITABLE ALLIES INC?
- CHARITABLE ALLIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,595 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($1,038,550). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHARITABLE ALLIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,438,595 in grants to CHARITABLE ALLIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARITABLE ALLIES INC?
- THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,038,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARITABLE ALLIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing