Iowa · 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.
- $12M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $78M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $583k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $3.1M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $4.4M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.2M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $435k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $521k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $328k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maharishi Foundation International | $9,917,000 | 5 | 57% |
| Maharishi Global Admin Through Natural Law | $1,614,040 | 8 | 14% |
| Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation | $1,461,300 | 6 | 2% |
| Global Country of World Peace | $1,348,707 | 4 | 0% |
| Brahmananda Saraswati Yagya Foundation | $130,624 | 8 | 0% |
| Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology Foundation | $93,856 | 1 | 36% |
| Institute for Excellence in Africa | $38,320 | 5 | n/a |
| Global Projects for Peace | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($642k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rita Morgan Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation
- How much does Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation give?
- Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $2,209,881, out of $12,092,386 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (76%), Health (13%), Science & Tech (9%).
- Who are Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maharishi Foundation International ($9.9M), Maharishi Global Admin Through Natural Law ($1.6M), Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation ($1.5M).
- Does Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rita Morgan Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation based?
- Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation is based in IA.
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