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The Olive Branch Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$691kHealth$505kEnvironment$135kEducation$105kScience & Tech$100kPublic Benefit$9kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$340k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAHARISHI INTEGRATIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION$225,000
Wildlife Habitat Conservancy Inc$25,000
MAHARISHI FOUNDATION$1,000
J BABE STEARN BOYS CLUB$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $425k) 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.

area typical 8%Maharishi Foundation International: $200k → 14%Maharishi Foundation International: $125k → 14%Maharishi Foundation International: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 4 repeat orgs$406k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +653% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$404k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+653%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • MI
    Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $505k · revenue ×37 · 54% of their budget
  • MF
    Maharishi Foundation International
    3× · 2020–2022 · $425k · revenue +102%
  • MV
    MAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +653%

Funded once

  • RR
    Raam Raj Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $265k · revenue +27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maharishi Global Admin Through Natural Law

Education and application of maharishi vedic science and technology to promote development of higher states of consciousness and world peace. (continues on sch o).

Human Services
2
Maharishi University of Enlightenment

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

Religion
3
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
4
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
5
Maharishi Purusha Program

Offer non-degree courses to the public, including courses and educational programs in the Maharishi Vedic Science (MVS) programs and educational programs in developing higher states of consciousness through the MVS program. Support and…

6
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Global Projects for Peace

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…

Philanthropy
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…

10
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
11
Friends of Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Maharishi Institute of Vedic Agriculture and Environmental Relationships

The organization develops and supports programs for Vedic organic agriculture and the development of human consciousness to create and maintain ecological balance and a healthy environment.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maharishi Foundation International and 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation — $505,000 · HealthMaharishi Integrated Health Foundatio…Maharishi Foundation International — $425,000 · Human ServicesMaharishi Foundation Internatio…Raam Raj Foundation — $265,000 · InternationalRaam Raj FoundationWILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVANCY INC — $135,000 · EnvironmentWILDLIFE …MAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Science & TechGlobal Country of World Peace — $25,000 · Science & TechIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · Other+2 more — $2,000 · OtherMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationNATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY — $9,000 · Education
Health$505,000Human Services$425,000International$265,000Environment$135,000Science & Tech$100,000Other$62,000Education$54,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaharishi Integrated Health Foundation — $505,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetMaharishi Foundation International — $425,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation — $265,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVANCY INC — $135,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Country of World Peace — $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetNATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY — $9,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Invincibility FoundationVA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Invincibility Foundation · Rita Morgan Charitable Foundation Inc · David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace · Schwartz Family Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Olive Branch Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Olive Branch Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Olive Branch Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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