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Trust for the Meditation Process at a glance

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Trust for the Meditation Process

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$172kEducation$147kHealth$53kHuman Services$47kArts & Culture$38kYouth Development$9kSocial Science$5kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
$5,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$26,000
BIPOC CENTERING PRAYER RETREAT GROUP$25,500
WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION INTL$25,000
CONTEMPLATE LINCOLN$15,680
CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH$15,000
LAUDATO SI MOVEMENT$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
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION: $10k → 11%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $4k → 23%ZERO TO THREE: $10k → 14%STAND UP SPEAK OUT OF NORTH CAROLINA: $5k → 11%SPACE BETWEEN: $5k → 9%INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION: $8k → 11%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
MT
MN
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$216k · 10 repeat orgs$841k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$216k
$676k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-15%

Still filing today

70%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $49k · revenue +19%
  • WM
    WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +85%
  • CF
    CIVITAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • LA
    LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2022 · $273k
  • AU
    AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • MS
    MINDFUL SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -83%
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
The Art of Yoga Project

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…

Human Services
2
Mindfulness and Positivity Project

Offers workshops, retreats and courses for teachers, students, and parents to learn and practice mindfulness, positive psychology, and wellbeing.

Health
3
Worthy Beyond Purpose Inc

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,…

Youth Development
4
The Teaching Well Inc

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…

Education
5
Center for Wellness and Achievement

The mission of CWAE is to promote human development and reduce societal problems by strengthening the underlying neurophysiology of learning and behavior.

Education
6
Wellity Education

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.

Arts & Culture
7
The School Mindfulness Project

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…

Education
8
Mindfulness First

Our mission is to teach children and adults the practical skills and knowledge needed for lifelong mental health and wellbeing.

Education
9
Mindful Life Project

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.

Youth Development
10
BeWell in School

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…

Youth Development
11
Be Well Be Here Inc

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…

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12
Dragonfly Mental Health

To cultivate excellent mental health among academics globally

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellbeing Action for Youth Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
7/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST: $273,283 · OtherLIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTAVAILABLE UPON REQUEST: $250,449 · OtherAVAILABLE UPON REQUESTLAUDATO SI MOVEMENT: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherCONTEMPLATE LINCOLN: $28,200 · Other+27 more: $203,918 · Other+27 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $49,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNI…MINDFUL SCHOOLS: $45,000 · EducationMINDFUL SCHOOL…WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc: $20,000 · EducationWholeSchool Mi…WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $15,200 · EducationWELLBEING ACTI…BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTHE GARRISON INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationINWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTANDUP-SPEAKOUT OF NORTH CAROLINA: $5,000 · Human ServicesSPACE BETWEEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesRED WILLOW LEARNING CENTER INC: $3,462 · Human ServicesCONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH LTD: $30,000 · ReligionRESTORATION MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $6,000 · ReligionCALMER CHOICE INC: $7,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthTUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS INC: $5,000 · HealthPARK PLACE: $4,000 · Community Improvement
Other$815,850Education$139,200Human Services$45,462Religion$36,000Health$17,000Community Improvement$4,000

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 budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $49,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $45,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH LTD: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWholeSchool Mindfulness Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetINWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $15,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIVITAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALMER CHOICE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESTORATION MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTANDUP-SPEAKOUT OF NORTH CAROLINA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSPACE BETWEEN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GARRISON INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeace of Mind Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIVE STRENGTH REVOLUTION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRED WILLOW LEARNING CENTER INC: $3,462 over 1y, 3.4% 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 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 ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds CIVITAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 TUCSON CANCER CONQUERORS INC ↗
  • Who funds STANDUP-SPEAKOUT OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds SPACE BETWEEN ↗
  • Who funds THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Peace of Mind Inc ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA5.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Trust for the Meditation Process funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trust for the Meditation Process. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Calmer Choice Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Trust for the Meditation Process 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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home