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FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY

EIN 20-2787890 CARMEL, IN

Revenue 2024
$6,551,997
Expenses 2024
$5,262,055

Program services were 79.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R60
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 3310

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).

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.

  • PATRICK T GILLEN

    PRESIDENT & CHIEF COUNSE

    Total calculated
    $56,000
    From this org
    $28,000
    From related orgs
    $28,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related

  • ANN LONGON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • THOMAS DILLON ESQ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARK HOLTERMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • PATRICK RAINEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LAURA COLEMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAVE FEAVEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAVE GRABOSKY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DWIGHT SAATHOFF

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • BRIAN BURCH

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $259,664
    From this org
    $68,544
    From related orgs
    $168,550
    Other
    $22,570
    Hours/week
    25 + 25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $68,544 + $153,550 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $15,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,028 + $10,967 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $10,575 related
    Filer's total
    $69,572 + $190,092 related

  • JOHN SHERMAN

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $263,056
    From this org
    $112,376
    From related orgs
    $112,376
    Other
    $38,304
    Hours/week
    25 + 25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $82,376 + $82,376 related
    Bonus
    $30,000 + $30,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,032 + $15,072 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,200
    Filer's total
    $135,608 + $127,448 related

  • JOSHUA MERCER

    VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAMMIN

    Total calculated
    $208,206
    From this org
    $96,923
    From related orgs
    $96,923
    Other
    $14,360
    Hours/week
    25 + 25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $86,923 + $86,923 related
    Bonus
    $10,000 + $10,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,160
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,200
    Filer's total
    $111,283 + $96,923 related

  • JASON STERN

    GIFT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $187,515
    From this org
    $87,545
    From related orgs
    $87,545
    Other
    $12,425
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $55,045 + $55,045 related
    Bonus
    $32,500 + $32,500 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,565 + $7,860 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $92,110 + $95,405 related

  • JONATHAN KEARNEY

    DATA SYSTEMS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $135,074
    From this org
    $62,437
    From related orgs
    $62,437
    Other
    $10,200
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • SCOTT WILLIAMS

    CREATIVE CONTENT STRATEGIST

    Total calculated
    $135,575
    From this org
    $62,500
    From related orgs
    $62,500
    Other
    $10,575
    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 — 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
    $6,551,997
    Expenses
    $5,262,055
    Contributions
    $6,551,484
    Grants paid
    $1,939,292
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,314,011
    Expenses
    $4,179,092
    Contributions
    $4,312,748
    Grants paid
    $1,434,138
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,381,192
    Expenses
    $3,454,307
    Contributions
    $3,386,182
    Grants paid
    $1,313,147

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 2024 return

  • FIDELIS

    501(C)(4) · GRASSROOTS EDUCATION · MI

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 10 September 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.