· Public charity
Maharishi Foundation USA Inc
Maharishi foundation usa is a not-for-profit educational organization whose purpose is to administer and supervise the teaching of transcendental meditation programs and its advanced programs throughout the united states.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $438,940 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,248,414 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $809,474 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
- $250k+1 grant · $369k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maharishi Foundation International | $369,000 |
| RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION | $52,340 |
| Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global | $10,000 |
| Thousand Headed Purusha | $7,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $670k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -49% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MIMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +42%
- RRRaam Raj Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $573k · revenue +27%
- JCJefferson County Farmers and Neighbors2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- GCGlobal Country of World Peaceone grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue -75%
- MVMAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -49%
- BSBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Education and application of maharishi vedic science and technology to promote development of higher states of consciousness and world peace. (continues on sch o).
To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.
Mfi was established to promote the expansion of maharishi vedic science.
The purpose of Global Projects for Peace is "to perform activities for the support and benefit of Maharishi International University (MIU), an Iowa non-profit corporation, and Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation (BSF), a Delaware non-profit…
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…
Conducting yoga seminar and promoting yoga.
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…
As a supporting organization to support, benefit and carry out the purposes of publicaly supported organizations that are engaged in promoting the Transcendental Meditation program or other aspects of Maharishi Integrated Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds Raam Raj Foundation ↗
- Who funds Center for Wellness and Achievement ↗
- Who funds Global Country of World Peace ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Maharishi Foundation USA Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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