Totals
- Total revenue
- $9,209,791
- Total expenses
- $2,190,271
- Contributions and grants received
- $9,200,000
- Grants paid
- $1,946,985
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $9,791
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $10,470,064
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $10,470,064
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,111,429
- Management and general expenses
- $78,842
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,111,429
Program services were 96.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
-
1b · Membership dues
$0
-
1c · Fundraising events
$0
-
1d · Related organizations
$0
-
1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$9,200,000
-
1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
-
2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
3 · Investment income
total $9,791 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $9,791
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
-
7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
-
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$0
-
11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $1,946,985 · program services $1,946,985
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11b · Fees: legal
total $15,677 · program services $0 · management and general $15,677 · fundraising $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $29,172 · program services $0 · management and general $29,172 · fundraising $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $198,412 · program services $164,444 · management and general $33,968 · fundraising $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $25 · program services $0 · management and general $25 · fundraising $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $389,837 · end of year $349,566
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $7,009,791
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$0
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$0
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $3,060,707 · end of year $3,110,707
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $3,450,544 · end of year $10,470,064
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Sacred Spaces Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization whose purpose is to highlight the beauty and intellectual and spiritual value of sacred spaces such as places of worship in our local communities and civil society more broadly, and to explore the role of religious institutions in modern cultural life.
Activities or mission (Part I)
A nonprofit educational organization whose purpose is to highlight the beauty and intellectual and spiritual value of sacred spaces such as places of worship in our local communities and civil society more broadly, and to explore the role of religious institutions in modern cultural life.
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The organization funded different initiatives to help highlight the intellectual and spiritual value of certain churches and the diocese of Portland Maine.
Expenses $2,111,429 · Grants $1,946,985
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Leonard Leo
Director, President, Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Andrea Picciotti
Director, Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Clare Rowan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
-
$1,050,000
General Support
-
$896,985
General Support
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Related corporations and trusts
Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.
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Chelsea Holdings LLC
S · Real Estate · ME · 100% owned · share of income -$21,040 · share of assets $2,694,580 · controlled entity
Directly controlled by Sacred Spaces Foundation
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 7 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202513219349312076
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