Washington · Nonprofit
SOULFORMATION
SOULFORMATION (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,306 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($207,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $865k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $448k
- Net assets
- $424k
What Soulformation does
Mission
Soulformation is a spiritual formation and direction organization that exists for the wholeness of christian leaders. Through the creation of transformational relational environments, we seek to partner with the holy spirit in god's work of transforming leaders as they transform the world. Soulformation carries out this mission through three primary programs; an academy of spiritual formation, a school of spiritual direction and a community of spiritual directors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Spiritual direction the staff of Soulformation are all trained spiritual directors. Spiritual direction, a one-on-one, contemplative practice where a trained guide helps an individual recognize and respond to the presence and activity of god in their daily life, is a core offering of Soulformation accounting for between 33% and 100% of each staff member's time.
$305,889 spent$288,895 earned by the program41% of program spendingAcademy of spiritual formation the academy of spiritual formation is an in-person, applied spiritual formation experience designed to nurture the souls of leaders as they serve in their local context. Cohorts of leaders gather at a retreat center in the pacific northwest for four on-site intensives over eighteen months. Each of these four-day in-person intensives include teaching, group spiritual direction in triads, solitude, and a variety of contemplative prayer practices. New cohorts start approximately every six months.
$258,070 spent$166,271 earned by the program35% of program spendingSchool of spiritual direction the Soulformation school of spiritual direction is an in-person training program, rooted in the tradition of ignatian spirituality that trains students in the art of spiritual direction. Running nine months and including three in-person intensives, the school trains students through a combination of advanced teaching, direct engagement in spirtual direction, regular peer interaction in triads, and group supervision. Students journey together in a cohort of 30, engaging in a rich process of exploration, reflection, and applied spiritual direction.
$128,524 spent$117,874 earned by the program17% of program spendingCommunity of spiritual directors the Soulformation community of spiritual directors (csd) exists to support, equip, encourage and foster connections between graduates of Soulformation's school of spiritual direction who are called to the ministry of spirtual direction. Consisting of graduates from 8 cohorts of the school of spiritual direction, the csd is a vibrant community of spiritual directors throughout the pnw and across the us and canada. Members can participate in an annual community retreat, periodic enrichment and learning events, in-person regional gatherings, and supervision by trained supervisors. Space for god retreats space for god retreats are lightly guided retreats for groups of up to 12 individuals. Hosted by a spiritual director, these small to medium sized retreats provide spacious, unhurried and uninterrupted time for individuals to be with god.
$52,347 spent$33,805 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $744,830.
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 2017 to 2018, from $195k to $329k (+69%).
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 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of SOULFORMATION’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. 2 of the last 9 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
Ruth-Anne Gilbertson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $52k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 SOULFORMATION’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
SOULFORMATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 SOULFORMATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 85% · 2019 97% · 2020 61% · 2021 93% · 2022 57% · 2023 86% — 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
50% of SOULFORMATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
77% of SOULFORMATION'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 $105k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $343k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SOULFORMATION is better cushioned 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 SOULFORMATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SOULFORMATION: 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 SOULFORMATION?
- SOULFORMATION (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,306 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($207,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOULFORMATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $448,306 in grants to SOULFORMATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOULFORMATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $207,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOULFORMATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 8 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