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Esalen Institute

Esalen is a leading center for exploring and realizing human potential through experience, education, and research. We work toward the realization of a more humane world, seeking answers to questions unlikely to be explored by traditional universities and religions. Esalen sponsors pioneering initiatives and offers personal, spiritual,…

$2.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$101k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$101,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$101,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$70M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Esalen Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving1$101k0%
FY20231$115k100%
FY20191$10k0%
FY20182$60kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$226kEducation$60kHealth$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Track Two - An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy$215,732230%
Big Sur Park School Inc$49,933156%
ITP International$20,00024%

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About Esalen Institute

How much does Esalen Institute give?
Esalen Institute reported 1 itemized grants totaling $101,000, out of $2,373,210 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Esalen Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (76%), Education (20%), Health (3%).
Who are Esalen Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Track Two - An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy ($216k), Big Sur Park School Inc ($50k), ITP International ($20k).
Does Esalen Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Esalen Institute based?
Esalen Institute is based in CA.

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 4 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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