· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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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How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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