Indiana · Nonprofit
FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY
FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY (Indiana) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,280,776 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,104,104). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Fidelis Center for Law & Policy does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The fidelis center for law and policy operates as an allied affiliate of fidelis, and directs several programs, including educational initiatives, online videos, email newsletters, social media campaigns and videos, and other public communications designed to inspire, inform and shape the public life of the nation.during the year, the fidelis center operated an additional d/b/a "edify," a digital learning initiative that produced bi-monthly animated video productions, ebooks and podcasts featuring prominent national experts on issues of public import. The edify platform aims to to help american catholics and all concerned citizens better understand difficult questions through the lens of authentic catholic social teaching, science, philosophy, art, and law. Collectively the videos and podcasts were watched by millions of listeners and online viewers.our public interest litigation program is designed to coordinate, fund, or engage in strategic litigation to promote the sanctity of life, civil rights, and the family. The program provides critical funding in several important legal cases where legal services are provided to clients without charge. The center also produced amicus…
$4,199,762 spentof which $1,939,292 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,199,762.
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 2019 to 2020, from $644k to $1.7M (+166%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Brian Burch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $854k → $2.6M.
25 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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 CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 37% · 2019 64% · 2020 33% · 2021 41% · 2022 38% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
21% of FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
80% of FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY'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 $3.2M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Against its field
FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fidelis · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY: 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 FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY?
- FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY (Indiana) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,280,776 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,104,104). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $16,280,776 in grants to FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY?
- JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,104,104 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 54 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