Institute for Contemplation and Dialogue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364496824
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3139713668
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,267
- Expenses
- $66,244
- Assets
- $253,789
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Sylvester (President)
People named in this filing
- Nancy Sylvester (President)
- Susan Schorsten (Board Member)
- Kathleen Phelan (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Religious and Charitable
What it reported doing in 2024
Designed and implemented a new full day ZOOM program, Polarity Wisdom, to imagine ways of responding to the polarities of our time rooted in a contemplative heart. Developed and participated in six ZOOM calls for those who participated in the earlier programs to continue to reflect on how what they had learned affects their everyday life. Designed and processed a variety of colloquia which included two five day, and six one day, colloquia in person. Prepared and offered two different short rituals for Advent and Lent on ZOOM for two different national organizations. Continued a weekly contemplative prayer time focused on violent conflicts throughout the world and especially in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. Wrote a monthly reflection for a major publication. Wrote a monthly reflection for the organization's website. Completed the publication of two books. Hundreds of persons participated in these activities which included women and men, social justice activists, spiritual directors, leaders of women's religious congregations and other organizations, and educators. These opportunities offered the participants to delve deeply into the critical issues facing us as people of faith in our planetary community through dialogue and contemplation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 15
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.4%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -77.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.83; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 60.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.4% of revenue deployed · 13.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.