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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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $1,040,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,297,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,257,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $670k
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AYNI INSTITUTE$215,000
THE CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR$115,000
CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL IMAGINATION$115,000
THE SURGE NETWORK$100,000
FRANCISCAN MEDIA$75,000
ILLUMAN$50,000
COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC$45,000
THRESHOLDS COMMUNITY-GLOBAL$45,000
THE HAPPY GIVERS$35,000
FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK$35,000
NAUTILUS FUND$25,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK$20,000
AMPLIFY PEACE$15,000
TRINITY HOUSE CATHOLIC WORKER$15,000
EPISCOPAL CITY MISSION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOICES FROM THE BORDER: $8k → 19%AYNI INSTITUTE: $215k → 16%THE CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $115k → 14%RED BIRD FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC: $45k → 14%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%ONE GENERATION A PROJECT OF TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%AGRI-CULTURA NETWORK LA COSECHA CSA: $15k → 14%COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: $25k → 14%THE CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $88k → 14%MOVIMIENTO COSECHA: $6k → 16%CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $10k → 14%MOVIMIENTO COSECHA: $6k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $500k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $180k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 14%AYNI INSTITUTE: $175k → 16%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $6k → 14%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $11k → 16%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $6k → 14%OMEGA CENTER: $6k → 14%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 14%OMEGA CENTER: $6k → 14%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING: $8k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 12% of Center for Action and Contemplation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Center for Action and Contemplationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 48 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
19

Total granted

$4.3M
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionInternationalEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AI
    AYNI INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +350% · 41% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR
    5× · 2019–2025 · $403k · revenue +244% · 35% of their budget
  • I
    ILLUMAN
    6× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +189% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • FP
    FRANCISCAN PROVINCE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $36k
  • OI
    ONELIFE INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -31%
  • HB
    HEALING BY CHOICE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
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
Friends Peace Teams Inc

Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led organization working around the world to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict to create programs for peace building, healing & reconciliation based on extensive Quaker experience.

International
4
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
5
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
6
Ignatian Solidarity Network

The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) networks, educates, and forms advocates for social justice animated by the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the witness of the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador and their companions.

Education
7
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
8
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
9
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
10
Parliament of the Worlds Religions

The vision of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is of a just, peaceful and sustainable world in which: *Religious and spiritual communities live in harmony and contribute to a better world from their riches of wisdom…

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11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Community Action; 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.
05the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $1,291,500 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITUTE INCCENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $402,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR THE WORKING POORCOALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LDRSHP: $100,000 · Human Services+11 more: $156,500 · Human Services+11 moreEAST VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $377,500 · OtherEAST VALLEY BIBLE CHURCHCATHEDRAL OF THE INCARNATION: $105,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF THE INCARNATIONST ANTHONY MESSENGER: $75,000 · OtherST ANTHONY MESSENGERTRINITY HOUSE CATHOLIC WORKER: $56,656 · OtherST FELIX PANTRY INC: $48,603 · OtherCommunity Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative: $55,000 · Other+31 more: $495,222 · Other+31 moreILLUMAN: $260,000 · ReligionILLUMANCenter for Spiritual Imagination Inc: $215,000 · ReligionCenter for Spirit…Thresholds Community: $132,000 · ReligionThresholds Commun…RED LETTER CHRISTIANS: $45,700 · ReligionRED LETTER CHRIST…SHALEM INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION: $40,500 · ReligionSHALEM INSTITUTE …+3 more: $42,000 · Religion+3 moreWisdom & Money: $200,000 · Public BenefitTHE FAITH MATTERS NETWORK COLLABORATIVE: $25,500 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $17,500 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $15,000 · Public BenefitHappy Sonship: $132,000 · InternationalONE ATTA TIME INC: $23,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $11,224 · InternationalSunshine Ministries dba Sunshine Kids International: $11,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $10,000 · InternationalFRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK: $110,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC: $37,500 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $32,500 · Civil RightsSolidaire Network Inc: $138,000 · PhilanthropyJubilee Gift Galaxy Inc: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$1,950,500Other$1,212,981Religion$735,200Public Benefit$258,000International$187,224Civil Rights$180,000Philanthropy$153,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $1,291,500 over 7y, 41% of budgetCENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $402,500 over 5y, 35% of budgetILLUMAN: $260,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetCenter for Spiritual Imagination Inc: $215,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetWisdom & Money: $200,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $138,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThresholds Community: $132,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetHappy Sonship: $132,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetFRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK: $110,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LDRSHP: $100,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCommunity Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative: $55,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetST FELIX PANTRY INC: $48,603 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRED LETTER CHRISTIANS: $45,700 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetSHALEM INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION: $40,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY: $33,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $32,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FAITH MATTERS NETWORK COLLABORATIVE: $25,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW MEXICO INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT: $25,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetLA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNAUTILUS FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC: $23,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetONE ATTA TIME INC: $23,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMADE FOR PAX CO: $16,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetONELIFE INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES FROM THE BORDER: $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetJubilee Gift Galaxy Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 10% 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 budgetLA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH LTD: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRed Bird Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetAMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY: $11,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTODAYS YOUTH MATTER: $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGravity A Center for Contemplative Activism: $11,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $11,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSunshine Ministries dba Sunshine Kids International: $11,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPB&J FAMILY SERVICES INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTOGENESIS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetRESIST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds AYNI INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR ↗
  • Who funds ILLUMAN ↗
  • Who funds Center for Spiritual Imagination Inc ↗
  • Who funds Wisdom & Money ↗
  • Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds Thresholds Community ↗
  • Who funds Happy Sonship ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LDRSHP ↗
  • Who funds Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds ST FELIX PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds RED LETTER CHRISTIANS ↗
  • Who funds SHALEM INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE FAITH MATTERS NETWORK COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds NAUTILUS FUND ↗
  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ATTA TIME INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MADE FOR PAX CO ↗
  • Who funds ONELIFE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE ↗

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…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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Action and Contemplation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Action and Contemplation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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