· Private foundation
Trust for the Meditation Process
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $26,000 |
| BIPOC CENTERING PRAYER RETREAT GROUP | $25,500 |
| WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION INTL | $25,000 |
| CONTEMPLATE LINCOLN | $15,680 |
| LAUDATO SI MOVEMENT | $15,000 |
| CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH URBAN LIFE | $12,989 |
| WHOLE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS | $10,000 |
| INNER EXPLORER | $10,000 |
| INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION | $8,000 |
| PAX | $7,500 |
| CALMER CHOICE | $7,000 |
| WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION USA | $6,450 |
| U MASS MEMORIAL HEALTH | $5,225 |
| BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $49k · revenue +19%- LSLAUDATO SI MOVEMENT2× · 2023–2024 · $30k
- COCONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH LTD2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue -31%
Funded once
- LALIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTone grant, 2022 · $273k
- AUAVAILABLE UPON REQUESTone grant, 2021 · $250k
- MSMINDFUL SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -83%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To bring mindfulness-based practices to system-involved and other marginalized youth for their healing and empowerment. we understand that youth require a predictable, safe, supportive environment to heal. we combine yoga, meditation, and…
Offers workshops, retreats and courses for teachers, students, and parents to learn and practice mindfulness, positive psychology, and wellbeing.
Through our programming, kids, teachers, parents, and school leaders and community support organizations gain the tools needed to develop self-regulatory skills that are proven to improve our kids relationships with their peers, education,…
The teaching well empowers school systems to more effectively support, retain and leverage the brilliance of their educators. In partnership, we heal adult culture by providing tools for healthy dialogue, emotional regulation and mindful…
The mission of CWAE is to promote human development and reduce societal problems by strengthening the underlying neurophysiology of learning and behavior.
Wellity Education equips educators with tools to support the mental health and well-being of both educators and students through mindfulness, movement, and mindset training and curriculum.
To improve the phyiscal, emotional and academic well-being of underserved school communities by providing sustainable mindfulness education and mindful movement education to staff and students on a school-wide basis.smp provides training…
Our mission is to teach children and adults the practical skills and knowledge needed for lifelong mental health and wellbeing.
Empower underserved students and their teachers through mindfulness and other transformative skills to gain self-awareness, confidence, self-regulation and resilience, leading to lifelong success.
BeWell in School (BeWell) supports the well-being of school communities by teaching mindful breath and movement as proactive tools for self-regulation. Our mission is to equip students with tools to navigate challenging feelings and…
Be well be here is a 501(c)(3) non-profit mindful wellness educational collaborative dedicated to co-creating experiential wellbeing practices, transformational storytelling programs and integrative betreats. our charitable mission…
To cultivate excellent mental health among academics globally
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellbeing Action for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Native Strength Revolution Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH LTD ↗
- Who funds WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc ↗
- Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CIVITAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds STANDUP-SPEAKOUT OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds SPACE BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Trust for the Meditation Process 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
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.
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