Minnesota · Nonprofit
Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality
Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,457 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality does
Mission
Spirituality Counseling
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$40,617 spent100% of program spendingSacred Ground is a community of spiritual directors and seekers that looks for God in all things. We help people explore their sacred stories and open themselves to Gods transforming love. We offer spiritual direction, training of directors, supervision, and enrichment opportunities. In a typical year, Sacred Ground conducts 800 hours of spiritual direction/companioning, which is approximately 75 seekers meeting with 30 directors; educates 20 students in the spiritual direction certification program (two years of classes and three years of facilitated supervision); offers 100 hours of enrichment opportunities to approximately 750 attendees; offers 150 hours of peer supervision to over 70 spiritual directors.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,617.
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 2019 to 2020, from $92k to $134k (+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.
69% of Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Charlie Keffer
Board Chair and Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $17k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality’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
Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
52% 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 Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 68% · 2021 65% · 2022 68% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality'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 $61k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality?
- Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,457 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $127,457 in grants to Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Sacred Ground Center For Spirituality →
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 3 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