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SHALEM INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION INC

EIN 52-1130401 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$1,560,992
Expenses 2024
$1,315,790

Program services were 69.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X99Z
Classification
7000
Street
1226 VERMONT AVE NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PROVIDE RESOURCES TO INDIVIDUALS & COMMUNITIES FOR NURTURING CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING & LEADERSHIP.

  • LONG-TERM PROGRAMS - PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO DESIRE IN-DEPTH SUPPORT FOR THEIR LIVES AND MINISTRIES.

    Expenses $601,640

  • SHORT AND INTERMEDIATE PROGRAMS - REGIONAL, INTERNATIONAL, AND LOCAL PROGRAMS, GROUPS, RETREATS AND PILGRIMAGES THAT OFFER TEACHING AND PRACTICES FOR THOSE SEEKING A GROUNDING IN CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING AND LEADERSHIP.

    Expenses $225,913

  • COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA RESOURCES - PROVIDING TEACHING, INSIGHTS AND GROUNDING IN SPIRITUAL FORMATION THROUGH NEWSLETTERS, WRITINGS AND INTERNET RESOURCES.

    Expenses $80,859

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Margaret Benefiel

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $120,520
    From this org
    $120,520
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Tatiana Bien - Aime

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karah Palmer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patricia D Franklin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeffrey Ross

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gene Foehl

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jehanne Gheith

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tom Frost

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lydia Mercado

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Beverly Gibson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Laura Lee Ernst

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alfonso Campbell III

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,560,992
    Expenses
    $1,315,790
    Contributions
    $830,066
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,484,489
    Expenses
    $1,404,451
    Contributions
    $677,900
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,253,648
    Expenses
    $1,158,325
    Contributions
    $491,326
    Grants paid
    $15,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,361,459
    Expenses
    $1,126,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,200,461
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,446,057
    Expenses
    $819,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,234,030
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,185,109
    Expenses
    $936,135
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,377,676
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,238,594
    Expenses
    $956,925
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,960,835
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,580,093
    Expenses
    $1,031,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,638,780
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,138,742
    Expenses
    $1,067,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,034,862
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,034,707
    Expenses
    $1,085,400
    Assets (EOY)
    $978,951
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,042,514
    Expenses
    $1,074,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $960,092
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,174,486
    Expenses
    $1,181,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,093,622
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,031,574
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,096,482

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • EXECUTIVE SOUL LLC

    $15,000

    2022 COMMON GOALS

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.