California · Nonprofit
The Center for Integral Wisdom
The Center for Integral Wisdom (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $869,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($358,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $722k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $870k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What The Center for Integral Wisdom does
Mission
The Center for Integral Wisdom (ciw) is an activist think-tank dedicated to partnering with leading thinkers and change agents to formulate and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization. Ciw is committed to evolving the source code of human existence based on "the universe: a love story" principles. Ciw's purpose is to develop transformative spiritual practices consistent with the center's core dharma and values and to offer the center's wisdom teachings and practices to interested persons around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Center for Integral Wisdom (ciw) offers spiritual teachings and practices through publications, scholarly papers, web presence, online and in-person courses and events. In 2024, ciw continued development and/or published numerous publications and presentations and offered live and online courses as well as other programs, including a weekly online evolutionary church, reaching over 5,000 people around the world. Ciw also continued development and maintenance of an extensive web presence intended to broaden the base of the think-tank and make a wide scope of resource material available to the public.
$410,145 spent$6,074 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $410,145.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+50%).
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.
88% of The Center for Integral Wisdom’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. 0 of the last 8 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
Marc Gafni
CEO/co-president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $316k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 The Center for Integral Wisdom’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
The Center for Integral Wisdom leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 The Center for Integral Wisdom.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 50% · 2023 79% — 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
63% of The Center for Integral Wisdom'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 $326k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $544k 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
The Center for Integral Wisdom runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Center for Integral Wisdom
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 The Center for Integral Wisdom: 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 The Center for Integral Wisdom?
- The Center for Integral Wisdom (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $869,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($358,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Center for Integral Wisdom have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $869,540 in grants to The Center for Integral Wisdom, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Center for Integral Wisdom?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $358,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Center for Integral Wisdom find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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