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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.3MReligion$1.1MCivil Rights$280kScience & Tech$200kPublic Benefit$145kPhilanthropy$126kInternational$114kFood & Nutrition$79kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $849,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,737,311 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $887,811 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AYNI INSTITUTE$200,000
CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL IMAGINATION$100,000
THE SURGE NETWORK$100,000
THE CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR$100,000
ILLUMAN$50,000
THRESHOLDS COMMUNITY-GLOBAL$30,000
THE HAPPY GIVERS$30,000
FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK$30,000
COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC$30,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK$20,000
WISDOM AND MONEY$15,000
TRINITY HOUSE CATHOLIC WORKER$15,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$15,000
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE$15,000
EQUAL JUSTICE USA$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOICES FROM THE BORDER: $7k → 19%AYNI INSTITUTE: $200k → 16%THE CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $100k → 14%RED BIRD FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC: $30k → 14%THE CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $90k → 14%RED BIRD FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%AGRI-CULTURA NETWORK LA COSECHA CSA: $15k → 14%COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: $25k → 14%MOVIMIENTO COSECHA: $6k → 16%THE CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $88k → 14%ONE GENERATION A PROJECT OF TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%MOVIMIENTO COSECHA: $6k → 16%CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $10k → 14%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $500k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 14%AYNI INSTITUTE: $180k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $175k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $11k → 16%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $6k → 14%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $6k → 14%OMEGA CENTER: $6k → 14%OMEGA CENTER: $6k → 14%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 14%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING: $7k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $6k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $6k → 14%ALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH CO ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $8k → 14%ALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH CO ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
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MA
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IN
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CA
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MO
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Center for Action and Contemplation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Center for Action and Contemplationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 45 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
17

Total granted

$3.3M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+23%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionInternationalPublic BenefitCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AI
    AYNI INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +173% · 41% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR
    4× · 2019–2024 · $288k · revenue +244% · 35% of their budget
  • I
    ILLUMAN
    5× · 2019–2024 · $210k · revenue +189% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • FP
    FRANCISCAN PROVINCE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $36k
  • EC
    EPISCOPAL CITY MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • OI
    ONELIFE INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
2
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

We demand health, dignity, and justice for our communities. We center and amplify Latine voices as we work to transform oppressive systems and narratives and to reclaim control over our bodies and lives. We build power by organizing our…

Health
3
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant

We promote reciprocity in the psychedelic community, and support the protection of sacred plants and cultural traditions. We advance psychedelic justice through curating critical conversations and uplifting the voices of women, queer…

Education
4
Nm Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe

CAFE is a faith based Non Profit community organization with the purpose of training and organizing low and moderate income families to shape public policy.

Human Services
5
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
6
Spirituality Network

The Spirituality Network connects people with resources for spiritual growth and depth, regardless of faith tradition though education and training, spiritual direction.

Religion
7
Fellowship Southwest

Fellowship Southwest is an ecumenical regional network of Christians and partner ministries promoting compassion, justice and connection throughout the Southwest US. Our ministry includes a network of pastors serving migrants on both sides…

Religion
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
12
Pico California

Our vision is a Moral Economy for California which includes structural campaigns that result in significant material improvements for the most vulnerable Californians: making affordable and dignified housing a human right, reducing the…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Made for Pax Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Senior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%62%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/69
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,496

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AYNI INSTITUTE INC — $1,076,500 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITUTE INCCENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR — $287,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR THE WORKING POORCOALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LDRSHP — $55,000 · Human Services+11 more — $140,500 · Human Services+11 moreEAST VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH — $277,500 · OtherEAST VALLEY BIBLE CHURCHCATHEDRAL OF THE INCARNATION — $105,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF THE INCARNATIONST FELIX PANTRY INC — $48,603 · OtherTRINITY HOUSE CATHOLIC WORKER — $41,656 · OtherFRANCISCAN PROVINCE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE — $36,000 · OtherMYSTIC SOUL PROJECT — $32,500 · OtherCommunity Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative — $40,000 · Other+26 more — $337,722 · Other+26 moreILLUMAN — $210,000 · ReligionILLUMANCenter for Spiritual Imagination Inc — $100,000 · ReligionCenter for Spir…Thresholds Community — $87,000 · ReligionThresholds Comm…RED LETTER CHRISTIANS — $37,700 · ReligionRED LETTER CHRI…SHALEM INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION — $32,500 · ReligionSHALEM INSTITUT…+3 more — $34,000 · Religion+3 moreWisdom & Money — $185,000 · Public BenefitTHE FAITH MATTERS NETWORK COLLABORATIVE — $17,500 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc — $17,500 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY — $15,000 · Public BenefitFRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK — $75,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC — $37,500 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $32,500 · Civil RightsHappy Sonship — $97,000 · InternationalONE ATTA TIME INC — $15,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $11,224 · InternationalSunshine Ministries dba Sunshine Kids International — $11,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $10,000 · InternationalSolidaire Network Inc — $118,000 · PhilanthropyJubilee Gift Galaxy Inc — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$1,559,500Other$918,981Religion$501,200Public Benefit$235,000Civil Rights$145,000International$144,224Philanthropy$133,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC — $1,076,500 over 6y, 41% of budgetCENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR — $287,500 over 4y, 35% of budgetILLUMAN — $210,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetWisdom & Money — $185,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $118,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Spiritual Imagination Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetHappy Sonship — $97,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetThresholds Community — $87,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetFRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK — $75,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LDRSHP — $55,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetST FELIX PANTRY INC — $48,603 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative — $40,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRED LETTER CHRISTIANS — $37,700 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $32,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHALEM INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION — $32,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY — $25,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC — $23,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAITH MATTERS NETWORK COLLABORATIVE — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW MEXICO INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT — $17,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE — $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONELIFE INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJubilee Gift Galaxy Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE ATTA TIME INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN — $11,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $11,224 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunshine Ministries dba Sunshine Kids International — $11,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTODAYS YOUTH MATTER — $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPB&J FAMILY SERVICES INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH LTD — $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGravity A Center for Contemplative Activism — $11,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTOGENESIS INC — $11,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLA PLAZITA INSTITUTE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS — $11,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRed Bird Foundation — $11,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetAMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY — $11,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESIST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADE FOR PAX CO — $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Albuquerque Community…Marshall L and Perrin…Santa Fe Community Fo…Con Alma Health Found…Champions of Love Fou…New Mexico Community …San Antonio Area Foun…WK Kellogg FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Wilderness SocietyImpactassetsincAnnie E Casey Foundat…
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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Center for Action and Contemplation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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