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Invincibility Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$285k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.2MHealth$2.0MEducation$351kEnvironment$40kArts & Culture$33kInternational$13k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $230k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$418k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maharishi Foundation International$230,000
Raam Raj Foundation$30,000
Maharishi Global Admin Through Natural Law$25,000
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 (FY19–25, $1.3M) 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%Maharishi Global Admin Through Natural Law: $25k → 16%Maharishi Global Administration through Natural La: $16k → 16%BLISSFUL LIFE FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%Maharishi Foundation International: $250k → 14%Maharishi Foundation International: $230k → 14%Maharishi Foundation International: $220k → 14%Maharishi Foundation International: $108k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 9 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against -49% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$4.6M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
-49%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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 Integrated Health Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +367%
  • MF
    Maharishi Foundation International
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue ×13
  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $351k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • WH
    WILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -100% · 46% of their budget
  • GP
    GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -49%
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

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.

1
Maharishi University of Enlightenment

To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.

Religion
2
Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Global Capital of World Peace

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…

International
4
Global Country of World Peace

The organizations mission is to serve as a nonprofit organization organized and operated exclusively for educational charitable and scientific purposes making total knowledge of natural law as brought to light by maharishi mahesh yogi…

Science & Tech
5
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…

Religion
6
Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology Foundation

Maharishi vedic science and technology foundation (mvstf) is organized to provide programs that promote individual and societal peace, happiness, prosperity, and perfect health, by engaging in activities that increase and promote the…

Science & Tech
7
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
8
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
9
Mount Madonna Institute

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…

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10
Hanuman Fellowship

The hanuman fellowship is dedicated to spiritual, religious, charitable, and educational activates. We hold our own programs and host groups for these purposes, with participants being individuals, nonprofit organizations, educational…

Religion
11
International Buddhist Education Foundation
Education
12
Sai Spiritual Foundation

Help establish unity of faith and welcome all spiritual seekers of all religions; realize the Inherent Divinity within as per Sathya SaiBaba

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maharishi Foundation International; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Habitat Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation: $2,036,000 · HealthMaharishi Integrated Health Foundation+1 more: $10,000 · HealthMaharishi Foundation International: $1,308,000 · Human ServicesMaharishi Foundation Internation…+1 more: $41,000 · Human ServicesMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $535,000 · OtherMAHARISHI PURUSHA …MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $200,000 · OtherMAHARISHI FOUNDATI…RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION: $32,500 · OtherMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $350,500 · EducationBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION: $74,501 · ReligionWILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentRaam Raj Foundation: $30,000 · InternationalGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $12,600 · Philanthropy
Health$2,046,000Human Services$1,349,000Other$767,500Education$350,500Religion$74,501Environment$40,000International$30,000Philanthropy$12,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaharishi Integrated Health Foundation: $2,036,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetMaharishi Foundation International: $1,308,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $535,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $350,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION: $74,501 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $41,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $12,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PTSD RECOVERY CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 5.8% 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.

The Rona and Jeffrey …Schwartz Family Found…The Olive Branch Foun…Raam Raj FoundationRamani and Louise D A…David L Lieb Foundati…Rita Morgan Charitabl…Ravi and Naina Patel …The Wege FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson FoundationMD22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · Schwartz Family Foundation · The Olive Branch Foundation Inc · Raam Raj Foundation · Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation · David L Lieb Foundation Inc · Rita Morgan Charitable Foundation Inc · Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Invincibility Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Invincibility Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Invincibility Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Invincibility Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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-PF 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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