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PEACE IN SCHOOLS

PEACE IN SCHOOLS (Oregon) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,258,581 to it, the largest being THE REALIZATION FOUNDATION ($2,661,618). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
$1.1M
19/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Peace in Schools does

Mission

Peace in Schools supports the well being of young people and adults by offering trauma-informed mindfulness instruction, guidance and mentorship. We believe mindfulness leads to personal and collective liberation, safer schools, healthier communities, and a more peaceful world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our mindful studies partnerships program offers our Peace in Schools mindful studies. As an integrated for-credit course for 10th-12th graders to schools. This course is either taught by our staff or trained high school teachers. These partnerships center teens and encompass the entire high school community. Teen program year-end outcomes and impacts for 2024-25: 4 portland public high schools received our direct service teen programming: cleveland, grant, mcdaniel, and roosevelt at comprehensive high schools, this class is either a semester long or year-long course, depending on the needs of the school. Through our mindful studies partnerships, 6 high schools (5 in oregon an 1 in california) facilitated mindful studies to their students 439 students completed our mindful studies elective class, the most in- depth, mindfulness-based course in public high schools nationally. Adult programs year-end outcomes and impacts for 2024-25: Peace in Schools offers a variety of programming for adults. Some offerings are specific to educators, others are open to all. 11 mindful studies teachers were trained and mentored as they implemente the first year of teaching our course 524 educators…

    $1,073,868 spent$105,105 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,073,868.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($583k) Expenses 100 ($612k) Net assets 100 ($227k)2019 Revenue 144 ($838k) Expenses 125 ($765k) Net assets 132 ($300k)2020 Revenue 174 ($1.0M) Expenses 157 ($958k) Net assets 157 ($357k)2021 Revenue 218 ($1.3M) Expenses 147 ($897k) Net assets 322 ($731k)2022 Revenue 116 ($677k) Expenses 160 ($979k) Net assets 189 ($429k)2023 Revenue 246 ($1.4M) Expenses 213 ($1.3M) Net assets 246 ($557k)2024 Revenue 347 ($2.0M) Expenses 256 ($1.6M) Net assets 447 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 256 ($1.5M) Expenses 225 ($1.4M) Net assets 497 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (256)Expenses (225)Net assets (497)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 2023 to 2024, from $659k to $1.1M (+69%).

$255k
$349k
$511k
$781k
$450k
$659k
$1.1M
$1.2M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of PEACE IN SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$29k
’18
$73k
’19
$57k
’20
$374k
’21
−$302k
’22
$129k
’23
$457k
’24
$113k
’25
3.3
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.

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Listed912967577
Joined·+3+2+1+3+0+4+0
No longer listed·0542220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $71k → $1.1M.

11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 PEACE IN SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

PEACE IN SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63%
largest funder
71%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 63% · 2019 82% · 2020 92% · 2021 42% · 2022 57% · 2023 75% — 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

37% of PEACE IN SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

PEACE IN SCHOOLS draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 12 states in all.

ID
WI
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DE
KS
OK
FL

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

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $814k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

PEACE IN SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PEACE IN SCHOOLS

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 9%Fundraising 13%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

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CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEACE IN SCHOOLS?
PEACE IN SCHOOLS (Oregon) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,258,581 to it, the largest being THE REALIZATION FOUNDATION ($2,661,618). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEACE IN SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,258,581 in grants to PEACE IN SCHOOLS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEACE IN SCHOOLS?
THE REALIZATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,661,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEACE IN SCHOOLS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing