· Public charity
Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation
To secure peace, affluence and invincibility for life everywhere on earth by providing perpetual support for large groups practicing transcendental meditation and its advanced techniques, especially large groups of maharishi vedic pandits who also offer special vedic performances for the welfare of the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $2,209,881 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,092,386 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,882,505 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAHARISHI FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $1,180,000 |
| MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDAT | $23,881 |
| INSTITUE FOR EXCELLENCE IN AFRICA | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $9.9M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MFMaharishi Foundation International5× · 2021–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +46% · 57% of their budget
- MGMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +250%
- MIMaharishi Integrated Health Foundation6× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MAMAHARISHI AYURVEDA PRODUCTS INT'Lone grant, 2024 · $583k
- MVMAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $94k · revenue +653% · 36% of their budget
- GPGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACEone grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue -31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.
To promote inner development and enlightenment in the individual and to create a peaceful and harmonious influence in the collective consciousness of society through the implementation of the programs of maharishi vedic science and…
Offer non-degree courses to the public, including courses and educational programs in the Maharishi Vedic Science (MVS) programs and educational programs in developing higher states of consciousness through the MVS program. Support and…
To secure peace, affluence and invincibility for life everywhere on earth by providing perpetual support for large groups practicing transcendental meditation and its advanced techniques, especially large groups of maharishi vedic pandits…
The very essence of spirituality and religion lies in understanding the depth of ancient wisdom, connecting to the divine, and achieving inner peace. our organization, rooted in the profound teachings of vedic scriptures and the practice…
The Global Capital of World Peace, Inc (GCWPI) is organized to provide programs that help establish world peace. GCWPI will do this primarily by supporting the building and operating of residential meditation facilities to house and…
Mount Madonna Institute, (MMI), teaches ancient knowledge and traditional practice from natural healing systems that integrate mind, body and spirit. Experienced faculty delivery degree and certificate programs on the 5000-year old science…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maharishi Global Admin Through Natural Law and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Excellence in Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Maharishi Foundation International ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW ↗
- Who funds Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Global Country of World Peace ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN AFRICA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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