Tennessee · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE
CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,488,259 to it, the largest being CHAMPIONS OF LOVE FOUNDATION INC ($2,021,486). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Center for Contemplative Justice does
Mission
The Center for Contemplative Justice grows and sustains corporal acts of justice arising from contemplation. We support one another's common life of prayer and service. We build community and deeper conversation through events, pilgrimages, publications, and services. We nurture the contemplative life and support visions for social and structural change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Center for Contemplative Justice (ccj) advances its mission to grow and sustain acts of justice arising from contemplation by supporting a diverse ecosystem of justice-centered programs, leaders, and communities-both locally and globally. Ccj provides administrative, financial, and programmatic support to individuals and organizations creating opportunities for social and structural change. Ccj advances its mission through its justice startup incubator, which provides administrative and fiscal sponsorship to emerging leaders and initiatives. These programs address a wide range of justice priorities, including human dignity, building community, and healing. - cont. Sch o
$1,485,329 spentof which $999,036 as grants$13,666 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,485,329.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $243k to $1.8M (+640%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Becca Stevens
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $22k → $941k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 58% · 2020 99% · 2021 93% · 2022 65% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $643k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE?
- CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,488,259 to it, the largest being CHAMPIONS OF LOVE FOUNDATION INC ($2,021,486). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,488,259 in grants to CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE?
- CHAMPIONS OF LOVE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,021,486 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing