California · Nonprofit
Mindful Life Project
Mindful Life Project (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,315,875 to it, the largest being ZEPHYR IMPACT ($1,000,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Mindful Life Project does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mindful Community: During the 2024-2025 school year, MLP's schoolwide mindfulness program, Mindful Community, provided over 20,000 students with weekly mindfulness-based social-emotional programming. These 25-minute sessions, delivered during the regular school day, help build a strong foundation of mental wellness and emotional intelligence across entire school communities.Mindful Community is particularly impactful because it reaches every student on a school campus, reinforcing a shared culture of wellness and emotional growth. Through this approach, schools have cultivated supportive ecosystems of mental health that contribute to thriving, connected learning environments.Program outcomes from 20242025 highlight the program's success: 91% of students stated that mindfulness was important to them. 90% of students reported that MLP programming helped them make healthier decisions. Teachers rated Mindful Community 8.5 out of 10 (very effective) for its ability to help create healthier classroom environments. On average, teachers reported a gain of 16 minutes of quality teaching time per day as a direct result of MLP's programming. 96% of teachers observed improvements in students'…
$2,164,086 spent$977,271 earned by the program55% of program spendingRise Up: During the 20242025 school year, MLP's Rise Up program provided over 1,700 students with curated, mindfulness-based support designed to meet the needs of high-need students and those impacted by trauma.Rise Up's signature programming creates emotionally safe spaces where students can explore their lived experiences alongside peers who understand their challenges. Through accessible, creative outlets such as music, art, dance, poetry, yoga, and performing artsall interwoven with mindfulnessstudents discover meaningful ways to express themselves, release emotions in healthy ways, and cultivate inner awareness.Teacher feedback underscores Rise Up's deep impact within schools: 89% of teachers reported having a better understanding of the needs of their Rise Up students. 90% of teachers stated they are now better able to establish more supportive relationships with those students.Rise Up not only empowers students but also transforms teacher-student connections, fostering more compassionate, understanding school communities. As one 5th grader said, "I enjoy Rise Up! We do fun activities and mindful sits. When [my MLP instructor] comes, I get excited since that means it's…
$1,490,985 spent$673,653 earned by the program38% of program spendingHybrid Services - Mindfulness 360: MLP's Mindfulness 360 program offers a hybrid, whole-school approach to mindfulness and social-emotional learning. Mindfulness 360 is designed to be flexible and adaptive in response to the diverse social-emotional needs of students and educators alike. This customizable model combines mindful hip-hop assemblies, weekly live virtual mindfulness sessions, in-person classroom experiences, teacher professional development, and regular mindfulness sessions for teachers and families.During the 20242025 school year, Mindfulness 360 served over 10,000 students across Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, and Solano countiesmaking it one of MLP's most sought-after programs. Notably, 85% of participating students stated that mindfulness is now important to them because of their experience with MLP's hybrid services.In addition to school-based programming, MLP continues to offer mindfulness training for personal well-being to community-based organizations and other partners. These trainings equip educators and community members with practical tools and resources to cultivate healthy, thriving school and…
$305,360 spent$344,835 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,960,431.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $2.7M (+95%).
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 11% · 2023 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of Mindful Life Project’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Kelly Bathgate
Board Member/Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $139k → $2.1M.
17 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Mindful Life Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 funders by total. 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
Mindful Life Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 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 Mindful Life Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 12% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% — 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
64% of Mindful Life Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
64% of Mindful Life Project's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Mindful Life Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Mindful Life Project
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 Mindful Life Project: 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 Mindful Life Project?
- Mindful Life Project (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,315,875 to it, the largest being ZEPHYR IMPACT ($1,000,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mindful Life Project have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $10,315,875 in grants to Mindful Life Project, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mindful Life Project?
- ZEPHYR IMPACT is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mindful Life Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 77 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