· Public charity
Raam Raj Foundation
To engage in all activities throughout the world that disseminate and support the understanding and application of maharishi vedic science and technology to fully develop life of the individual, community, national and world level, including, without limitation, creating world peace.
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 7 grants below total $844,040 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,353,295 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $509,255 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $288k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maharishi Foundation International | $500,000 |
| Maharishi International University | $178,100 |
| Maharishi International University Foundation | $60,000 |
| David Lynch Foundation | $50,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | $20,000 |
| Mother Divine Program-Global Country World Peace | $18,000 |
| Maharishi Foundation | $17,940 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 — $504k 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.
Stated purpose: Promoting teaching of Vedic Education and activities related to the schools and universities in Latin America and in India. · Support
Stated purpose: SUPPORT
Stated purpose: Scholarships for courses
Stated purpose: 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.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MFMaharishi Foundation International6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue ×13 · 83% of their budget
- MIMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2024 · $667k · revenue +219%
- MIMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $451k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- MPMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -1%
- TFTED FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
- MGMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAWgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +154%
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.
To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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 Ted Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 Foundation International ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds TED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Schwartz Family Foundation · Invincibility Foundation · Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · Global Invincibility Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Raam Raj Foundation 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
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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