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Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc

Maps' mission is to develop medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana, accomplished through 1) therapist training, 2) supporting clinical research, 3) honest public education, 4) harm reduction, and 5) advocacy.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.3MEducation$1.4MScience & Tech$1.1MEnvironment$996kReligion$467kCommunity Improvement$235kArts & Culture$64kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $913,873, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,997,465 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,083,592 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$80,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZENDO PROJECT INC$500,000
INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC$200,000
HORIZONS PBC$95,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$80,000
DEVA COLLECTIVE$19,873
CHACRUNA INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHEDELIC PLANTS$10,000
VETS VETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS$9,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ENTHEA: $136k → 11%COSMIC SISTER LLC: $11k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%MAPS PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $624k → 8%CIT CLINICS: $75k → 8%INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $200k → 9%WOMEN'S VISIONARY COUNCIL INC: $30k → 10%ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $70k → 10%ZENDO PROJECT INC: $550k → 11%INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND: $800k → 13%DREAM MULLICK - V: $23k → 14%NAUTILUS SANCTUARY INC: $5k → 17%BROOKLYN PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY INC: $85k → 20%BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH: $180k → 28%VETS VETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $43k → 11%ALMA INSTITUTE: $247k → 12%PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE: $13k → 12%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%LIGARE INC: $291k → 16%MAPS PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $499k → 8%CIT CLINICS: $10k → 8%SAGE INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $8k → 10%EMPYREAN LLC: $432k → 10%ZENDO PROJECT INC: $500k → 11%INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND: $126k → 13%POC PSYCHEDELIC COLLECTIVE: $54k → 17%BROOKLYN PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY INC: $55k → 20%VETS VETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $9k → 11%SOMATIC CENTER PORTLAND LLC: $46k → 12%PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE: $11k → 12%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%LIGARE INC: $29k → 16%NORTH STAR PROJECT: $18k → 8%DEVA COLLECTIVE: $20k → 10%EMPYREAN LLC: $8k → 10%CENTER FOR CONSCIOUSNESS MEDICINE: $550k → 11%POC PSYCHEDELIC COLLECTIVE: $51k → 17%BROOKLYN PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY INC: $37k → 20%SOMATIC CENTER PORTLAND LLC: $13k → 12%NORTH STAR PROJECT: $5k → 8%CHACRUNA INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHEDELIC PLANTS: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR CONSCIOUSNESS MEDICINE: $48k → 11%POC PSYCHEDELIC COLLECTIVE: $48k → 17%HORIZONS PBC: $95k → 20%VERTICA PRODUCTIONS: $34k → 12%MAXI COHEN DBA MAXCVISION (AYA DIARIES): $28k → 17%ALMA INSTITUTE: $189k → 12%MAXI COHEN DBA MAXCVISION: $16k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
CA
DE
NC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$628k · 62% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS APPROVED BY MAPS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$335k · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS APPROVED BY MAPS

South America$35k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS APPROVED BY MAPS

East Asia and the Pacific$20k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS APPROVED BY MAPS

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 15 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$5.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

60%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • ZP
    Zendo Project Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +73% · 66% of their budget
  • EU
    Emory University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +16%
  • VE
    VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $52k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • EL
    EMPYREAN LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $432k
  • TB
    THE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $180k · revenue -7%
  • E
    ENTHEA
    one grant, 2021 · $136k
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
National Center for Psychedelic Education

Supported education and research training for mental health.

Education
2
Synaptic Institute Inc

Providing care and connection to self, others, and the world at large. Our mission is to cultivate skillful, ethical, and socially responsible practitioners of entheogenic medicine rooted in holism, traditional wisdom, and science.

Health
3
Apollo Pact Inc

Advocacy Activities: Engage in advocacy efforts. Integrate former study participants from FDA clinical trials studying psychedelic compounds. Information Sharing: Collaborate with academic researchers. Identify FDA, Address the mental…

Health
4
Alchemy Community Therapy Center

Alchemy Community Therapy Center provides high-quality training, accesible psychedelic therapy, and innovative research, fostering effective and culturally-responsible mental health treatment for underserved communities.

Health
5
Open Mind Collective

Our mission is to conduct research, teach, and provide direct care using psychedelic medicine and other means to heal the minds and hearts of traumatized and vulnerable individuals and communities, alleviating transgenerational suffering.

Health
6
Mental Research Institute
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7
American Psychedelic Practitioners Association

Safely and holistically support the integration of psychedelic medicines and practices into the us healthcare system.

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8
Scientific Being Research Foundation Inc
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9
Institute for Mental Health & Wellness
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10
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles

The institute of contemporary psychoanalysis was formed in 1990 to offer mental health professionals, as well as scholars and professionals from other fields, the opportunity to study the full scope of psychoanalytic theory and clinical…

Education
11
Nonduality Institute Inc

The mission of the Nonduality Institute is to advance scientific understanding of nonduality through conducting research into neural signatures of nondual awareness and its effects on cognitive, affective and perceptual…

Health
12
Cg Jung Institute of New York Inc

The C.G. Jung Institute of New York offers a post-graduate clinical training program that prepares its students for a professional practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst and membership within a worldwide community of Jungian analysts. The…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pearl Psychedelic Institute; the most unlike its peers is People of Color Psychedelic Collective 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

14 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. 14 of the 32 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAPS PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $1,122,993 · OtherMAPS PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATIONEMPYREAN LLC: $431,502 · OtherEMPYREAN LLCTHE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · OtherTHE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATI…BROOKLYN PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY INC: $176,519 · OtherBROOKLYN PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY INCENTHEA: $136,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $100,000 · OtherHORIZONS PBC: $95,000 · Other+12 more: $327,237 · Other+12 moreZendo Project Inc: $1,050,000 · HealthZendo Project IncGATHER WELL PSCHEDELICS INC: $597,500 · HealthGATHER WELL PSCHEDELICS INC+2 more: $75,789 · HealthINDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND: $926,225 · PhilanthropyINDIGENOUS MEDI…ALMA INSTITUTE: $435,704 · Community ImprovementALMA INSTITU…INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SY…ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $70,000 · Community ImprovementATELIER FOR …WOMENS VISIONARY COUNCIL: $30,000 · Community ImprovementEmory University: $160,000 · EducationPEOPLE OF COLOR PSYCHEDELIC COLLECTIVE INC: $153,097 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationLIGARE INC: $319,250 · Religion
Other$2,569,251Health$1,723,289Philanthropy$926,225Community Improvement$735,704Education$323,097Religion$319,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZendo Project Inc: $1,050,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetINDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND: $926,225 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGATHER WELL PSCHEDELICS INC: $597,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetALMA INSTITUTE: $435,704 over 2y, 85% of budgetLIGARE INC: $319,250 over 2y, 63% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEmory University: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE OF COLOR PSYCHEDELIC COLLECTIVE INC: $153,097 over 3y, 77% of budgetVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $52,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWOMENS VISIONARY COUNCIL: $30,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetTHE PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE: $23,789 over 2y, 69% of budgetChacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds Zendo Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds GATHER WELL PSCHEDELICS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALMA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LIGARE INC ↗
  • Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE OF COLOR PSYCHEDELIC COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION ↗
  • Who funds VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS VISIONARY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant ↗

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.

Riverstyx FoundationThe San Diego Foundat…West Family FoundationNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Riverstyx FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Riverstyx Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · West Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 32 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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