Tennessee · Nonprofit
Fidelis Sisterhood
Fidelis Sisterhood (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,885 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Acadiana ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Fidelis Sisterhood does
Mission
Fidelis forms girls - heart, mind, body & soul - into a sisterhood of mature, virtuous disciples of Christ through the witness of Catholic women.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fidelis Sisterhood provides a catholic mentoring program for catholic parishes to sponsor and operate under their own volunteer leadership. The program consists of weekly meetings during the academic year (august-may) totaling approximately 32 meetings and 2 to 3 retreats. The curriculum implemented by the volunteers is designed for young women age 11 or in the 6th grade to 18 or a senior in high school. During the year ended september 20, 2021, 1,139 young women were registered as active participants in the program along with 330 adult volunteers.
$143,164 spent62% of program spendingFidelis inspire is a 5 day summer camp that girls attend with their volunteer mentors. The week includes team building adventure activities, human formation, prayer and opportunities to grow in friendship with their mentors and fellow fidelis sisters. Over 100 girls and 14 volunteers attended fidelis inspire this fiscal year.
$88,681 spent38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $231,845.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $206k to $131k (−36%).
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.
31% of Fidelis Sisterhood’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $40.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 Sisterhood’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 Sisterhood leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
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 Fidelis Sisterhood.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 97% · 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.
Where its funders are
94% of Fidelis Sisterhood'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Sisterhood has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Fidelis Sisterhood
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fidelis Sisterhood: 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 Sisterhood?
- Fidelis Sisterhood (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,885 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Acadiana ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Fidelis Sisterhood have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,885 in grants to Fidelis Sisterhood, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fidelis Sisterhood?
- Community Foundation of Acadiana is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fidelis Sisterhood find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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