Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC
TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,238,337 to it, the largest being WOODLAWN FOUNDATION ($1,174,211). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $821k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Tenley Study Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of Tenley Study Center Inc. Is to provide a supplementary educational center dedicated to the academic and character formation of young men. The christian orientation of the programs is entrusted to opus dei, a personal prelature of the catholic church.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, Tenley Study Center Inc. (organization) conducted seminars, classes, and workshops, primarily for high school students. The organization, through its resident staff, conducted retreats and provided mentoring to students. The organization provided facilities for education and retreats, as well as for the residence of program staff. During the year ended june 30, 2025, the organization provided services to approximately 180 people.
$774,424 spentof which $1,925 as grants$350,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $774,424.
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 $352k to $1.3M (+274%).
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.
57% of TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Joseph Cardenas
Executive director
Board chair
Denis Harper
President and chairman of
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $286k → $31k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 TENLEY STUDY CENTER 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
TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
100% 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 TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 91% · 2022 79% · 2023 51% — 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
TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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
TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TENLEY STUDY CENTER 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENLEY STUDY CENTER 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 TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC?
- TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,238,337 to it, the largest being WOODLAWN FOUNDATION ($1,174,211). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,238,337 in grants to TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC?
- WOODLAWN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,174,211 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENLEY STUDY CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 4 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