Colorado · Nonprofit
UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES
UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Upaya Organization for Contemplative Activities does
Mission
The corporation is organized as a charitable organization as defined in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as the same may be amended from time to time, or the corresponding provision of any future united states internal revenue law (the "code"). The corporation's primary purpose is to present training programs in several contemplative disciplines, bringing together traditional wisdom of the contemplative spiritual traditions, in particular buddhism, and modern western wisdom and professional disciplines.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2025 we offered our basic and graduate training programs which included online and in-person retreats. We also offered a number of online courses on contemplative psychology.
$50,253 spent$60,191 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $50,253.
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 2019 to 2020, from $53k to $161k (+203%).
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.
51% of UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Carolynn Larson-Garcia
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES’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
UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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 UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES.
“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
61% of UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES
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 Colorado
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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES: 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 UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES?
- UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,500 in grants to UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES.
- Who is the largest funder of UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPAYA ORGANIZATION FOR CONTEMPLATIVE ACTIVITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2 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