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David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace

The david lynch foundation for consciousness-based education and world peace (the "foundation or "dlf") is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2005. The foundation helps to prevent and eradicate the epidemic of trauma and toxic stress among at-risk populations through widespread implementation of the evidence-based…

$216k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$196k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$162,499
Largest grant, FY2025
$162,499
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$196k0%
FY20241$58k0%
FY20233$48k33%
FY20225$280k20%
FY20215$159k40%
FY20203$243k67%
FY20192$820k0%
FY20184$1.6Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$1.5MEducation$919kReligion$470kInternational$364kHuman Services$192kScience & Tech$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Wellness and Achievement$1,434,000243%
Maharishi International University$881,07251%
Maharishi Foundation USA Inc$469,59361%
Raam Raj Foundation$364,00019%
Global Mother Divine Org USA Tm Program for Women Professionals$192,000422%
PTSD Relief Now Corporation$47,316334%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$15,0001n/a
Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology Foundation$10,00010%
University of Arizona$5,7071n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($32k), 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.

Schwartz Family FoundationIA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Schwartz Family Foundation · The Olive Branch Foundation Inc · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace

How much does David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace give?
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace reported 2 itemized grants totaling $196,499, out of $216,423 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (27%), Religion (14%).
Who are David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Center for Wellness and Achievement ($1.4M), Maharishi International University ($881k), Maharishi Foundation USA Inc ($470k).
Does David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Schwartz Family Foundation, The Olive Branch Foundation Inc, The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation.
Where is David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace based?
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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