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INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC

INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,242,610 to it, the largest being THE HERSHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION CHOATE HALL & STEWART LLP C CASEY ($850,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$954k
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$185k
19/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Inward Bound Mindfulness Education Inc does

Mission

Inward bound mindfulness provides in-depth mindfulness programming for youth and the parents and professionals who support them.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization's primary program activities are achieved by providing retreats, custom programs, and teacher training programs. During the fiscal year ended october 31, 2025, inward bound mindfulness held six public in-person teen retreats in five different regions. In 2025, 75% of teen and young adult participants attending retreat received sliding scale tuition and scholarship funds (average scholarship was $1,800), reflecting the increasing economic hardships for many families. Participants traveled from 25 states and canadian territories; 48% of participants identified as bipoc/multiracial; 53% of participants identified as lgbtq+; and 11% of participants identified as gender expansive/transgender/nonbinary. Inward bound mindfulness also provided several custom programs to school communities and youth-serving professionals.

    $642,711 spent$169,459 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $642,711.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($561k)2018 Revenue 76 ($1.1M) Expenses 108 ($1.3M) Net assets 63 ($351k)2020 Revenue 111 ($1.6M) Expenses 102 ($1.2M) Net assets 85 ($476k)2021 Revenue 93 ($1.3M) Expenses 93 ($1.1M) Net assets 121 ($676k)2022 Revenue 73 ($1.0M) Expenses 117 ($1.4M) Net assets 53 ($297k)2023 Revenue 105 ($1.5M) Expenses 128 ($1.6M) Net assets 44 ($247k)2024 Revenue 67 ($954k) Expenses 84 ($1.0M) Net assets 33 ($185k)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (67)Expenses (84)Net assets (33)Peer revenue range

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 $845k to $375k (−56%).

$663k
$470k
$614k
$845k
$375k
$418k
$328k
2017201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$217k
’17
−$210k
’18
$346k
’20
$200k
’21
−$379k
’22
−$50k
’23
−$63k
’24
2.1
months of
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.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed10121010769
Joined·+7·+5+7+0+3
No longer listed·5·51010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $130k → $475k.

12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION 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

INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

50% 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 INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC.

26%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 51% · 2019 49% · 2020 53% · 2021 35% · 2022 38% · 2023 42% — 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

39% of INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
KY
DE
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 9 states

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CO
VA
DC

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Questions and answers

Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC?
INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,242,610 to it, the largest being THE HERSHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION CHOATE HALL & STEWART LLP C CASEY ($850,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,242,610 in grants to INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC?
THE HERSHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION CHOATE HALL & STEWART LLP C CASEY is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 28 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