Indiana · Nonprofit
FIDELIS
FIDELIS (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,939,297 to it, the largest being RESTORATION OF AMERICA ($4,123,997). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Fidelis does
Mission
Fidelis is a national social welfare organization established to organize, coordinate, and mobilize grassroots civic action for catholics and all people of good will to defend life, faith and family.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Fidelis is a national catholic advocacy group organized to educate and inspire every catholic in america to live out their faith in public life. Fidelis carries out this work principally through a d/b/a "catholicvote civic action or catholicvote.org" which provides catholic citizens and concerned americans critical news, commentary, educational and advocacy resources on a range of public policy questions, including the foundational issues of marriage, parental rights in education, religious liberty, economic justice, and the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death.during 2023, in furtherance of this mission, Fidelis programs included over 2 million postal mailings, 198.4 million email messages, hundreds of videos and social media posts, along with television, internet and radio advertising watched and shared by millions of engaged citizens. During the year, catholicvote sought to hold public officials accountable by producing op-eds, grassroots activism, web reports, candidate scorecards, and public advocacy aimed to protect the integrity of catholic sacramental life from public officials who create division and disunity in the church.as permitted by law, a small…
$3,844,997 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,844,997.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $4.2M (+58%).
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.
100% of FIDELIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $65k → $1.7M.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FIDELIS’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
FIDELIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FIDELIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 77% · 2022 87% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
FIDELIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
FIDELIS has grown faster than half of the 2,187 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like FIDELIS
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fidelis Center for Law and Policy · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIDELIS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FIDELIS?
- FIDELIS (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,939,297 to it, the largest being RESTORATION OF AMERICA ($4,123,997). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIDELIS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,939,297 in grants to FIDELIS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIDELIS?
- RESTORATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $4,123,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIDELIS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 3 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