School for Contemplative Living

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
861517735
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Metairie, LA, USA
Phone
5045080010
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Interfaith

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,557
Expenses
$36,848
Assets
$65,169
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • William Thiele (Executive Director - part year)
  • Callie Winn Crawford (Co-President - Part year)
  • Susan Gaumer (Co-President - part year)
  • Alison McCrary (Executive Director - part year)
  • Andrea Vidrine (President)

People named in this filing

  • William Thiele (Executive Director - part year)
  • Mary Lowry (Treasurer-part year)
  • Callie Winn Crawford (Co-President - Part year)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To create contemplative communities to support personal transformation and compassionate service by participants.

What it reported doing in 2025

Weekly groups: In 2025 we averaged reaching 100-200 people/week across all of our 14 groups, including weekly and monthly groups, to grow our justice-seeking skills and our use of contemplative practices to ground our compassionate service with the world. Workshops: In 2025 18 people attended an in-person and online workshop led by Rev. Connie Habash.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 68.7%; rating input score 69

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -109.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -41.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 68.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.