Texas · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC
CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,717 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($135,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $347k
- Net assets
- $344k
What Center for Mindful Self Compassion Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to alleviate human suffering and enhance global well-being through the practice of self-compassion. We do this by offering accessible, flexible, and affordable self-compassion resources and training; supporting msc teachers through high-quality education and professional development; and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in all our activities. We collaborate with like-minded organizations, engage with key societal systems, foster a global community of practice, and encourage scientific research to deepen understanding and application of self-compassion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public courses (lomsc): lomsc offers around 95% of the material from the msc program developed by kristin neff, phd, and christopher germer, phd. Msc is an opportunity to explore how we typically respond when difficulties arise in our lives and to learn tools for becoming a warm and supportive companion to ourselves. The emphasis of the program is on enhancing emotional resources to meet emotional challenges, old and new. Msc is also not primarily a type of mindfulness training; msc is mindfulness-based compassion training in which the quality of warmth is emphasized more than awareness itself.
$283,981 spent$236,173 earned by the program27% of program spendingTeacher training: develop personal mindfulness and self-compassion practices, understand the core theory and research behind self-compassion, identify key themes of the msc program including the retreat, build skills to facilitate groups through meditation, embodied teaching, and group cohesion, recognize common obstacles to practice and how to overcome them, and cultivate a mindful, compassionate stance toward participants facing challenges.
$182,780 spent$270,544 earned by the program17% of program spendingProfessional training: the self-compassion in psychotherapy (scip) program addresses a crucial need within the therapeutic community. It identifies a gap in the integration of self-compassion practices into psychotherapy. The program is a response to the growing acknowledgment among psychotherapists of the importance of self-compassion for mental health and wellbeing. It aims to equip therapists who have benefited from mindful self-compassion (msc) practices with the skills to incorporate these principles into their clinical work. Furthermore, it seeks to support clinicians in using their personal mindfulness and compassion practices as a foundation for fostering effective therapeutic relationships and interventions. This initiative is also driven by the desire to offer a continuing education experience that is inclusive and welcoming to all identities and intersections of identity, addressing the call for greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in therapeutic practices.
$126,400 spent$52,419 earned by the program12% of program spendingGeneral programs: other general supporting activities.
$451,568 spentof which $7,000 as grants$734,247 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,044,729.
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 2020 to 2021, from $268k to $1.1M (+322%).
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.
10% of CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Elijah Zimmerman
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Reved
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $98k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC’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 MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 56% — 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
20% of CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
57% of CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $149k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC?
- CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,717 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($135,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $346,717 in grants to CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing