Passionist Earth & Spirit Center
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Passionist Earth & Spirit Center meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
Stated Purpose:
To cultivate transformative learning and service opportunities dedicated to mindful awakening, compassionate justice, and care for the Earth.
Year, State Incorporated:
2007, KY
The Passionist Earth & Spirit Center is a nonprofit, interfaith spirituality center that helps individuals cultivate deeper connections with themselves, with others, and with the natural world, for the purpose of transformative learning that leads to service and healing. This three-fold mission focuses on contemplative practices like mindfulness meditation, integrated with active work on social justice and racial equity issues, as well as environmental stewardship. This work takes place mainly at the Earth & Spirit Center’s 27-acre campus in the Louisville Highlands, which features hiking trails, wetlands, vegetable gardens, rain gardens, pollinator gardens, food forests, and more. The Center is the largest provider of mindfulness instruction in the Central U.S., providing both in-person and online instruction, with an extensive program that offers free instruction programs for underserved community members and local schools. It partners with dozens of other organizations, such as the Louisville Urban League and Trees Louisville, to help build compassionate, socially just, and environmentally sustainable communities. The Center also offers extensive programming for youth and young adults – with an emphasis on participant diversity – including summer camps, retreats, leadership programs, field trips, service-learning projects, and ecology internships. Finally, the Center is home to the Institute for Applied Mindfulness, which helps other organizations – nonprofit, for-profit, educational, and governmental – integrate mindfulness into their organizational culture.
For the year ended June 30, 2023, Passionist Earth & Spirit Center's program expenses were:
| Program services | $369,006 |
| Total Program Expenses | $369,006 |
Chair of the Board
Dr. Haleh Karimi, Board Chairperson
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Assistant Professor of Management, Bellarmine University MBA program
Board Size
15
Paid Staff Size
6
Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Grant proposals, Internet, Planned giving arrangements, Appeals via Social Media (Facebook, etc.)
This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.
The following information is based on Passionist Earth & Spirit Center's unaudited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2023.
Source of Funds
| Grants | $365,658 |
| Program fees | $225,401 |
| Contributions | $165,673 |
| Interest and dividend income | $13,841 |
| Rental income | $2,797 |
| Contributed good and services | $1,125 |
| Gain/loss on sale of securities | $-569 |
| Total Income | $773,926 |
Programs: 76% Fundraising: 9% Administrative: 15%
| Total Income | $773,926 |
| Total expenses: | $486,756 |
| Program expenses | $369,006 |
| Fundraising expenses | $44,463 |
| Administrative expenses | $73,287 |
| Other expenses | $0 |
| Income in Excess of Expenses | $287,170 |
| Beginning Net Assets | $531,737 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets | $0 |
| Ending Net Assets | $818,907 |
| Total Liabilities | $31,238 |
| Total Assets | $850,145 |
Ending net assets as reported above include $702,455 without donor restrictions and $116,452 with donor restrictions.
Total assets as reported above include $117,723 in property and equipment, net.
The financial section of this BBB report was updated in February 2024.
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