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NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC
NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,643 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($777,691). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $633k
What New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to transform the culture of care throughout the continuum of life with compassion and wisdom through education, zen practice, and care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
New york zen center for contemplative care fulfills its mission through the following programming: contemplative medicine education and training for medical doctors, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants; contemplative care education and training for social service and healthcare professionals (among others) to build resilience in caring for self and others; group bereavement support and care at the bedside for others; caring for and tending to a sangha (congregation) and mahasangha (the wider buddhist community); engaging the wider community in the zen practice path through daily zazen (meditation) practice, ritual, ceremony, study, and the student-teacher relationship with an authorized zen teacher.
$1,967,184 spentof which $85,578 as grants$1,380,002 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,967,184.
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 2024 to 2025, from $864k to $1.4M (+59%).
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 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Rachel Klauber-Speiden
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $170k → $180k.
10 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE 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
NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 40% · 2019 62% · 2020 45% · 2021 37% · 2022 46% · 2023 79% — 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
55% of NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE 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
86% of NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE 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 $196k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.
Against its field
NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC?
- NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,643 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($777,691). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,406,643 in grants to NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $777,691 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 22 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