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CHARITABLE ALLIES INC

EIN 35-1615544 INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Revenue 2024
$2,181,257
Expenses 2024
$2,145,162

Program services were 51.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2100
Street
3500 DEPAUW BLVD STE 3090

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

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

  • 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.

    Expenses $440,284 · Revenue $683,687

  • PROVIDING 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.

    Expenses $575,147 · Revenue $1,062,095

  • CHARITABLE 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.

    Expenses $97,033 · Revenue $53,749

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ZACHARY KESTER

    DIRECTOR, CEO

    Total calculated
    $322,193
    From this org
    $322,193
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $322,193
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $322,193

  • ROBERT MILLER

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $166,055
    From this org
    $166,055
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $166,055
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $166,055

  • OLIVIA CLOER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $110,253
    From this org
    $110,253
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $110,253
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $110,253

  • MELISSA COLEMAN

    DIRECTOR, VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TINA WHITTINGTON

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL KLIMON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRYAN GREEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL NELSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TED BASTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TINA CLOER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,181,257
    Expenses
    $2,145,162
    Contributions
    $360,182
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,985,325
    Expenses
    $1,948,610
    Contributions
    $225,070
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,706,058
    Expenses
    $1,776,651
    Contributions
    $36,531
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,508,866
    Expenses
    $1,608,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $465,266

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,043,695
    Expenses
    $928,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $390,001

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,518,246
    Expenses
    $1,470,088
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,357

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $344,504
    Expenses
    $368,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,384

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.