How much does Center for Action and Contemplation give?

Center for Action and Contemplation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,040,000, out of $3,297,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Center for Action and Contemplation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Religion (30%), Civil Rights (8%).

Who are Center for Action and Contemplation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ayni Institute Inc ($1.3M), Center for the Working Poor ($403k), East Valley Bible Church ($378k).

Does Center for Action and Contemplation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Center for Action and Contemplation based?

Center for Action and Contemplation is based in NM.

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New Mexico · Public charity

Center for Action and Contemplation

The CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION introduces spiritual seekers to the transformative wisdom of the christian contemplative tradition and nurtures its emergence in service to the healing of our world.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Itemized grants FY2025: 25
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $215,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 25; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 15
Total assets, FY2025: $18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Center for Action and Contemplation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesReligionInternationalPublic BenefitCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	28	$1.0M	14%
FY2024	25	$835k	20%
FY2023	18	$762k	17%
FY2022	24	$696k	38%
FY2021	21	$842k	71%
FY2020	12	$180k	92%
FY2019	21	$145k	19%
FY2018	18	$102k	100%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.3MReligion$1.1MCivil Rights$280kScience & Tech$200kPublic Benefit$145kPhilanthropy$126kInternational$114kFood & Nutrition$79kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ayni Institute Inc	$1,291,500	7	41%
Center for the Working Poor	$402,500	5	35%
East Valley Bible Church	$377,500	4	n/a
Illuman	$260,000	6	37%
Center for Spiritual Imagination Inc	$215,000	2	32%
Wisdom & Money	$200,000	5	20%
Solidaire Network Inc	$138,000	6	0%
Thresholds Community	$132,000	4	10%
Happy Sonship	$132,000	5	4%
Franciscan Action Network	$110,000	5	5%

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All grantees of Center for Action and Contemplation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ayni Institute Inc	$1,291,500	7	41%
Center for the Working Poor	$402,500	5	35%
East Valley Bible Church	$377,500	4	n/a
Illuman	$260,000	6	37%
Center for Spiritual Imagination Inc	$215,000	2	32%
Wisdom & Money	$200,000	5	20%
Solidaire Network Inc	$138,000	6	0%
Thresholds Community	$132,000	4	10%
Happy Sonship	$132,000	5	4%
Franciscan Action Network	$110,000	5	5%
Cathedral of the Incarnation	$105,000	2	n/a
Coalition for Spiritual & Public Ldrshp	$100,000	3	4%
St Anthony Messenger	$75,000	1	n/a
Trinity House Catholic Worker	$56,656	3	n/a
Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative	$55,000	4	2%
St Felix Pantry Inc	$48,603	2	1%
Red Letter Christians	$45,700	5	5%
Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation	$40,500	5	1%
Norbertine Community of New Mexico	$40,000	4	n/a
Equal Justice USA Inc	$37,500	3	0%
Franciscan Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe	$36,000	4	n/a
Henri Nouwen Society	$33,000	4	3%
Mystic Soul Project	$32,500	2	n/a
Southwest Organizing Project	$32,500	2	1%
The Faith Matters Network Collaborative	$25,500	3	1%
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light	$25,500	3	7%
La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place	$25,000	3	1%
Nautilus Fund	$25,000	1	11%
Albuquerque Interfaith Inc	$23,500	3	7%
One Atta Time Inc	$23,000	3	1%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$22,500	2	0%
Awakenings Inc	$19,000	3	n/a
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$17,500	2	0%
Partnership for Community Action	$17,500	2	1%
Made for Pax Co	$16,000	2	1%
Episcopal City Mission	$15,000	1	n/a
Onelife Institute Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Healing by Choice	$15,000	1	n/a
La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture	$15,000	1	4%
Amplify Peace	$15,000	1	n/a
Episcopal City Mission	$15,000	1	n/a
Faith in Action Network	$15,000	1	0%
Center for Civic Policy	$15,000	2	0%
Voices From the Border	$15,000	2	14%
Jubilee Gift Galaxy Inc	$15,000	1	10%
New Mexico Friends of Foster Children	$11,500	2	5%
Swop Action Fund	$11,250	1	n/a
Food for the Poor Inc	$11,224	1	0%
La Plazita Institute	$11,000	2	1%
Contemplative Outreach Ltd	$11,000	2	1%
Red Bird Foundation	$11,000	2	5%
Americans for Indian Opportunity	$11,000	2	1%
Todays Youth Matter	$11,000	2	1%
Gravity A Center for Contemplative Activism	$11,000	2	1%
Heartbeat of Hope Inlt Inc	$11,000	2	n/a
El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos	$11,000	2	2%
Sunshine Ministries dba Sunshine Kids International	$11,000	2	5%
Zen Peacemakers Inc	$11,000	2	n/a
PB&J Family Services Inc	$11,000	2	0%
Native American Voters Alliance	$11,000	2	n/a
Center for Christogenesis Inc	$11,000	2	5%
Resist Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Wake Forest University	$10,000	1	0%
Thousand Currents	$10,000	1	0%
Cadmon Whitty FBO the Albuquerque Mennonite Church	$8,722	1	n/a
Community Purchasing Alliance	$7,500	1	n/a
Catholic Charities	$7,500	1	0%
New Mexico Environmental Law Center	$7,500	1	0%
Albuquerque Public Schools	$7,500	1	n/a
Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership	$7,500	1	0%
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center	$7,250	1	0%

Center for Action and Contemplation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 52.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Albuquerque Community FoundationNM36.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Champions of Love Foundation Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Wilderness Society · Impactassetsinc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Center for Action and Contemplation

How much does Center for Action and Contemplation give?: Center for Action and Contemplation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,040,000, out of $3,297,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Center for Action and Contemplation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Religion (30%), Civil Rights (8%).
Who are Center for Action and Contemplation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ayni Institute Inc ($1.3M), Center for the Working Poor ($403k), East Valley Bible Church ($378k).
Does Center for Action and Contemplation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Action and Contemplation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albuquerque Community Foundation, Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc, Santa Fe Community Foundation.
Where is Center for Action and Contemplation based?: Center for Action and Contemplation is based in NM.