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Center for Contemplative Justice

The CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE grows and sustains corporal acts of justice arising from contemplation.

$999k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$125kHousing & Shelter$111kEnvironment$49kReligion$44kInternational$25kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$19kHuman Services$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $101,260, the rows itemized in this filing. The $999,036 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $897,776 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUSTAINABLE THREADS$31,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
ST GEORGE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,260
INTERFAITH BROADCASTING COMMISSION$10,000
HIMALAYAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
THE WELCOME GARDEN$10,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
ROOM IN THE INN$7,000
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 (FY24–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EDEN'S FARM: $10k → 11%CROWDED TABLE: $15k → 14%THE WELCOME GARDEN: $10k → 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

NH
IL
PA
NJ
KY
VA
KS
TN
NC
GA
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $740k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $696k to organizations and $44k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$696k · 94% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT YOUTH · ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT · SCHOOL OPERATIONS

Russia and Neighboring States$37k · 5% · 1 person

Stated purpose: ARTISAN SKILLS

South America$8k · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: ARTISAN SKILLS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 3 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +686% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$145k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+686%
0%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SA
    ST AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $74k
  • LC
    Larkspur Conservation
    4× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +686%
  • MB
    METAMORPHOSIS BEAUTIFULLY CHANGED INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k

Funded once

  • NE
    NUEVA ESPERANZA-NEW HOPE GIRLS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $32k · revenue 0%
  • AJ
    ABSALOM JONES CENTER FOR RACIAL HEALING
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • MH
    Magdalene House Chicago Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -94%
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.

1
Home for Homeless Women
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2
Brookshire New Birth Ministries

To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction

Human Services
3
Islands of Hope Dream Center

Islands of Hope Dream Center exists to restore hope and dignity to women who have survived human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Our mission is to provide a safe, Christ-centered home where each woman is welcomed into a community,…

Public Benefit
4
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

—
5
Freedom House

Freedom house is a long-term, addiction-recovery program that rescues, restores, and redeems the lives of women and their children in a christ- centered, family environment. in july 2006, freedom house admitted its first residents and…

Health
6
Hananiah House

Transitional housing for women coming out of prison

Crime & Legal
7
Recoverychick

religious

Human Services
8
The House That Mercy Built

Faith based residential program that will provide a safe environment for women to be transformed from teh inside out. a place that helps women bring order, accountability, and a strong spiritual foundation where there has been chaos, lack…

Religion
9
Dahlia Grove

Empower, inspire, encourage and employ women rescued from human trafficking, domestic violence and sexual exploitation as they change their life, regain their independence and enjoy their freedom.

Employment
10
Garden Home Ministries

Providing safe and secure housing for 9 female victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking

Health
11
The Mend House Sober Living Community

The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…

Health
12
Mukti International

Mukti is a Sanskrit word that means "freedom from oppression and exploitation". Our goal is to see women and children find pathways to freedom. We partner with organizations around Asia that are on the frontlines helping to rescue and…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edens Farm; the most unlike its peers is Himalayan Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL: $74,400 · OtherST AUGUSTINE'S CHAPELLarkspur Conservation: $49,191 · OtherLarkspur ConservationSUSTAINABLE THREADS: $31,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE THREADSABSALOM JONES CENTER FOR RACIAL HEALING: $30,000 · OtherABSALOM JONES CENTER FOR RACIAL HEALINGMagdalene House Chicago Inc: $30,000 · OtherMagdalene House Chicago IncINCLUSION TENNESSEE: $28,154 · OtherINCLUSION TENNESSEEDIRTY GIRLS MINISTRIES: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · Other+6 more: $56,760 · Other+6 moreCROWDED TABLE: $15,000 · Human ServicesEDENS FARM: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WELCOME GARDEN: $10,000 · Human ServicesNUEVA ESPERANZA-NEW HOPE GIRLS INC: $32,402 · InternationalMETAMORPHOSIS BEAUTIFULLY CHANGED INC: $21,146 · Housing & ShelterBelmont University: $10,000 · EducationHimalayan Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAFE HAVEN RECOVERY: $10,000 · Crime & LegalFILANTROPIA PUERTO RICO INC: $2,660 · Philanthropy
Other$327,505Human Services$35,000International$32,402Housing & Shelter$21,146Education$10,000Youth Development$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Philanthropy$2,660

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLarkspur Conservation: $49,191 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetNUEVA ESPERANZA-NEW HOPE GIRLS INC: $32,402 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMagdalene House Chicago Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetMETAMORPHOSIS BEAUTIFULLY CHANGED INC: $21,146 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCROWDED TABLE: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEDENS FARM: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBelmont University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHimalayan Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE WELCOME GARDEN: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetINTERFAITH BROADCASTING COMMISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Champions of Love Fou…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Champions of Love Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Champions of Love Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Contemplative Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Contemplative Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Center for Contemplative Justice?

    Find your warmest path to Center for Contemplative Justice through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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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