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The Center for Spiritual Studies

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$207k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,001
Largest grant, FY2025
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 14
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$4.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Center for Spiritual Studies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$207k50%
FY20243$230k0%
FY20237$230k43%
FY20224$95k25%
FY202114$291k79%
FY20204$221kn/a
76% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$550kReligion$303kEducation$180kCommunity Improvement$35kPhilanthropy$20kInternational$15kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nyu Langone Hospitals$490,00060%
Hindu Temple Society of Na$238,0006n/a
New York University$130,00020%
Portledge School$50,00010%
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City$35,00020%
Health Research Inc$25,00010%
Northwell Health Foundation$20,00010%
New York Cares Inc$20,00010%
Arsha Bodha Center a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation$10,00021%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00010%
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All grantees of The Center for Spiritual Studies by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nyu Langone Hospitals$490,00060%
Hindu Temple Society of Na$238,0006n/a
New York University$130,00020%
Portledge School$50,00010%
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City$35,00020%
Health Research Inc$25,00010%
Northwell Health Foundation$20,00010%
New York Cares Inc$20,00010%
Arsha Bodha Center a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation$10,00021%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$5,00010%
Island Harvest Ltd$5,00010%
The Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Young Indian Culture Group Inc$5,00013%
North Shore Animal League America Inc$5,00010%
Iskcon New Vrindaban Inc$5,0001n/a
Mount Sinai Health System Inc$5,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($211k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Center for Spiritual Studies supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNyu Langone Hospitals: $490,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortledge School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Research Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Cares Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArsha Bodha Center a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Harvest Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Indian Culture Group Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 15.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to The Center for Spiritual Studies?

Find your warmest path to The Center for Spiritual Studies 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.

About The Center for Spiritual Studies

How much does The Center for Spiritual Studies give?
The Center for Spiritual Studies reported 10 grants totaling $207,001 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Center for Spiritual Studies fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Religion (24%), Education (14%).
Who are The Center for Spiritual Studies's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Nyu Langone Hospitals ($490k), Hindu Temple Society of Na ($238k), New York University ($130k).
Does The Center for Spiritual Studies fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Center for Spiritual Studies accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Center for Spiritual Studies?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Center for Spiritual Studies based?
The Center for Spiritual Studies is based in DE.

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 24 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-PF 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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