Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE
THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,317,254 to it, the largest being GORDON AND LLURA GUND FOUNDATION ($1,555,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What The Center for Mind-Body Medicine does
Mission
The center for mindbody medicine, inc. Is a nonprofit corporation, organized under the laws of the district of columbia dedicated to reviving the spirit and transforming the practice of medicine. The center's mission is to make selfcare, selfawareness and group support central to all health care, the training of health professionals and the education or our children. The center's model combines the precision of modern science with the wisdom of the world's healing traditions, to help health professionals heal themselves, their patients and clients, and their communities.The Center for Mind-Body Medicine believes that all of us have a great and largely untapped capacity to improve our own health and wellbeing through mind-body approaches, nutrition, exercise, and group support
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Global trauma relief is the cmbm's groundbreaking program to address population-wide psychological trauma. It trains critical masses of health and mental health professionals and community leaders so that they can heal psychological trauma and stress in areas devastated by war, poverty, violence, and natural disasters. Our published research has repeatedly demonstrated decreases in post-traumatic stress disorder of 80% or more. Cmbm has developed large-scale programs in kosovo, macedonia, israel, gaza, haiti, ukraine, with syrian refugees in jordan, and in the united states with nyc firefighters post 9/11, in post-katrina new orleans, with native americans in the midwest, with active duty military, veterans, and their families, with staff and incarcerated men and women in the indiana correctional facilities, and with staff, students and community leaders in broward county, fl after the mass shooting in 2018. Toward the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, cmbm began a well-funded, major program for trauma relief in post-hurricane harvey houston. At the same time, cmbm began to explore major funding for similar programs in hurricane-affected puerto rico and in sonoma county, ca…
$2,108,322 spent$60,500 earned by the program60% of program spendingMind-body medicine professional training, the most comprehensive mindbody training program in the united states. It combines large group didactic training with our unique, smallgroup model, making it possible for healthcare professionals to integrate the best of mindbody medicine into clinical practice and teaching. This is the center's core program.wei have been teaching it around the world since 1994, providing over 7,000 practitioners with the tools they need to become more effective healers and to find more meaning in their work. Both experiential and evidencedbased, this program is rewarding and transformative. The advanced professional training in mindbody teaches practitioners how to teach mind-body skills groups for others and understand how to integrate the cmbm model into their professional practice and community work. The mind-body medicine certification program prepares practitioners to lead mind-body skills groups with diverse communities, integrate mind-body medicine into institutions, and develop unique applications for clinical practice and educational programs.
$723,842 spent$912,325 earned by the program21% of program spendingInstitutional partnership-are initiated to work with institutions to make systemic change in improving the training of healthcare professionals, educators, community leaders, so they can improve their own health and well being and better serve their patients, students, and constituents. Our institutional partnership program combines elements of our signature mind-body medicine curricula to create a comprehensive training in self-care, stress reduction, mind-body medicine, nutrition, exercise, and group support that is tailored to the needs of the specific institution.
$115,878 spent$11,159 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services- activities providing research, speaking engagements and educational products to the public related to mind-body medicine.
$556,193 spent$330,664 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,504,235.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $3.7M (+84%).
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: 2017 2% · 2020 21% · 2021 5% · 2023 17% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
James S Gordon Md
CEO and board member
Board chair
Dennis J Jaffe Phd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $510k → $2.0M.
17 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MIND-BODY MEDICINE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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 MIND-BODY MEDICINE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
50% 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 MIND-BODY MEDICINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 75% · 2019 37% · 2020 27% · 2021 33% · 2022 26% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 MIND-BODY MEDICINE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$4k
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 THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 MIND-BODY MEDICINE: 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 MIND-BODY MEDICINE?
- THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,317,254 to it, the largest being GORDON AND LLURA GUND FOUNDATION ($1,555,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $13,317,254 in grants to THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE?
- GORDON AND LLURA GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,555,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 50 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing