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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.

$216k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$162k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $196,499, the rows itemized in this filing. The $216,423 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,924 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $162k
$162,499
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC$162,499
GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION USA$34,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION-USA: $77k → 14%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION-USA: $75k → 14%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION USA: $34k → 14%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORG: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 5 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$3.0M
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $881k · revenue +43%
  • GM
    GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORG USA TM PROGRAM FOR WOMEN PROFESSIONALS
    4× · 2020–2025 · $192k · revenue +27%
  • PR
    PTSD Relief Now Corporation
    3× · 2018–2022 · $47k · revenue +18% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • RR
    Raam Raj Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $364k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    CASTLEFIELD CONSULTING LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for Wellness and Achievement: $1,434,000 · EducationCenter for Wellness and AchievementMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $881,072 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $469,593 · OtherMAHARISHI FOUNDAT…CASTLEFIELD CONSULTING LLC: $32,351 · OtherCASTLEFIELD CONSU…+2 more: $20,707 · OtherRaam Raj Foundation: $364,000 · InternationalRaam Raj Fo…GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORG USA TM PROGRAM FOR WOMEN PROFESSIONALS: $192,000 · Human ServicesPTSD Relief Now Corporation: $47,316 · HealthMAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Education$2,315,072Other$522,651International$364,000Human Services$192,000Health$47,316Science & Tech$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Wellness and Achievement: $1,434,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $881,072 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $469,593 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $364,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetGLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORG USA TM PROGRAM FOR WOMEN PROFESSIONALS: $192,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetPTSD Relief Now Corporation: $47,316 over 3y, 34% of budgetMAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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 Found…The Olive Branch Foun…The Rona and Jeffrey …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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