Connecticut · Nonprofit
COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC
COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,158 to it, the largest being THE ANGELL FOUNDATION ($330,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $255k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $642k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Copper Beech Institute Inc does
Mission
Teaching mindfulness practice and contemplative wisdom to inspire purposeful living, awaken our full potential for compassionate action and encourage a healing shift in how we relate to one another and our interconnected world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Due to less than hoped for programming seasons during the winter of 2024 and spring of 2025, the board of Copper Beech Institute voted during the April 2025 board meeting to sunset the organization. Once the decision was made, only existing programs with enough participants registered were held through June 30, 2025. No new program Retreats or workshops were planned with dates after June 30, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
This year we've empowered youth, supported educators, cared for the community with our toolkit, and explored the power of giving and receiving. We have also continued our MFC program, a leadership program that builds on each participant's expertise, training them to view their field and community through a mindfulness lens. Mindfulness Facilitator Certification (MFC) is an immersive community learning experience that introduces participants to a transformative new way of living and teaching mindfulness, informed and responsive to our ever-changing physical and digital world. We guide participants in deepening their personal practice while leveraging their unique expertise through a new mindful lens & framework. Through MFC, Copper Beech Institute promotes healing across connected communities.
$212,780 spent$139,712 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,780.
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 2023 to 2024, from $566k to $182k (−68%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Danielle Laura
Executive Director
Board chair
Kimberlee Pita
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $22k → $75k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE 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
COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 80% · 2019 67% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k 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
COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31k on record.
- Training Costs Non-Employees$30k
- Conf/Seminars/Workshop-Hosting$500
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 COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC: 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 COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC?
- COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,158 to it, the largest being THE ANGELL FOUNDATION ($330,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $642,158 in grants to COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC?
- THE ANGELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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