Connecticut · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST WISDOM INC
NORTHEAST WISDOM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,949 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($87,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $359k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $533k
What Northeast Wisdom Inc does
Mission
Contemplative, spiritual, and wisdom practices, and education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wisdom community support; conducted projects to further wisdom studies and practices through in-person gatherings and practice circles and on-line programs where participants have regular opportunities to deepen the foundational practices of wisdom living (centering prayer and other forms of meditation, sacred movements, lectio divina, sacred chanting, and mindful work), book study circles, and wisdom topic discussion groups, in person gatherings and on-line virtual retreats, and maintenance of an interactive website with daily meditation sits, community practice days, interactions with senior wisdom teachers and leaders, as well as an events calendar with registration details; more than 1000 participants registered for one or more of these specific activities, with visitors to the website numbering between three and six thousand on a daily basis.
$89,321 spent54% of program spendingWisdom community and invidual education activities including in person wisdom schools, on-line audio and video courses; access to an extensiive curated body of wisdom literature and writings by current and deceased widely recognized wisdom scholars, teachers and practioners, as well as other resources with a focus on community news, profiles and interviews which explore how wisdom is being planted and expressed in the lives and work/ministries of those who have found their way onto this path; research and resource materials supporting emerging wisdom teachers and mentors and those wishing to deepen their personal knowledge and practice. Five thousand newsletter subscribers; more than 200,000 annual website page views; hundreds of participants in formal course offerings.
$75,172 spentof which $1,500 as grants46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $164,493.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $365k to $533k (+46%).
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.
63% of NORTHEAST WISDOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $21k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 NORTHEAST WISDOM 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
NORTHEAST WISDOM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 NORTHEAST WISDOM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 58% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
91% of NORTHEAST WISDOM 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NORTHEAST WISDOM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NORTHEAST WISDOM 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHEAST WISDOM 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 NORTHEAST WISDOM INC?
- NORTHEAST WISDOM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,949 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($87,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST WISDOM INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $181,949 in grants to NORTHEAST WISDOM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST WISDOM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $87,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST WISDOM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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