Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality

Legal name: Charis Foundation for New Monacticism & Interspirituality

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473020709
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Des Moines, NM, USA
Phone
3233345782
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$121,147
Expenses
$144,872
Assets
$2,852,224
Liabilities
$43,083

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christopher Miles (President, Director of Keating-Schachter Center)
  • Rory McEntee (President, Executive Director, Treasurer)

Highest reported compensation

  • Christopher Miles (President, Director of Keating-Schachter Center): $50,800 total reported compensation
  • Rory McEntee (President, Executive Director, Treasurer): $26,460 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality (Charis Foundation) is a strategic array of programs and partnerships designed to support spiritual maturation, interspiritual collaboration, and broad systemic change in the world. Our ethos, or the spirit of our ideals, is articulated in our "Charis Community Vows."

What it reported doing in 2024

The Keating-Schachter Center for Interspirituality (KSC) at Naropa University, a project of the Charis Foundation, is dedicated to bringing genuine spiritual wisdom into education, creating opportunities for university students and staff to meet and interact with genuine wisdom holders from the diversity of the world's spiritual traditions. To this end, each semester KSC sponsors a World Wisdom Teacher-in-Residence to meet with students and staff for small circle dialogues, extended retreats, and to give public talks to the Boulder community. KSC also sponsors smaller community-focused "Wisdom Talks" throughout the school year, as well as multi-religious and interspiritual practice-opportunities and resources, courses, groups, retreats, and dialogues at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and at our affiliated retreat facility, Charis Mandala Sanctuary in Des Moines, New Mexico. In this way, we hope to influence future leaders through integrated experiences of wisdom. The center honors the legacy of two of our most important spiritual teachers, Father Thomas Keating and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 66
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.69; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -184.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $141K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.