Connecticut · Nonprofit
Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc
Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $749,964 to it, the largest being HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($531,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $577k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $750k
- Net assets
- $337k
What Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc does
Mission
To overcome bias, misunderstanding and polarization through immersive education and training that makes vivid our common humanity. Through innovative uses of sacred space and architecture, we help people, in particular faith communities, approach and engage differing worldviews.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Interreligious Communities Project (ICP) brings together religious and spiritual communities to visit one anothers sacred spaces, learn about each other, extend hospitality and equip themselves with some of the tools of faith dialogue. In addition to building an interfaith community, ICP is designed to engage religious diversity and to widen participation in interreligious activity, education and skill across each geographic context. During the fiscal year, Shared Sacred Spaces implemented a scaled, volunteer-driven model, giving it the ability to develop volunteers as interfaith leaders, coach and grow localized and sustained leadership, and bring the program to a greater number of people.
$191,773 spent49% of program spendingThe organization overcomes bias, misunderstanding and polarization through immersive education and training that makes vivid our common humanity. Through innovative uses of sacred space and architecture, we help people, in particular faith communities, approach and engage differing worldviews, and act together to address local challenges.
$141,011 spent36% of program spendingThe Architecture of Faith is an interreligious understanding and religious literacy project with multiple digital elements. The core is a set of documentary films exploring the five major faith traditions through the initial lens of their architecture or culture. It is complemented by an online set of learning modules which will serve higher education, faith communities, and the general public.
$58,706 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $391,490.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $121k to $245k (+103%).
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: 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Vanessa Avery
Executive Director
Board chair
Ed Hudner
President - Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $100k → $275k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Sharing Sacred Spaces 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
Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
71% 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 Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of Sharing Sacred Spaces 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 $219k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $531k 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
Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Sharing Sacred Spaces 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sharing Sacred Spaces 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 Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc?
- Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $749,964 to it, the largest being HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($531,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $749,964 in grants to Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc?
- HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $531,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sharing Sacred Spaces 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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