· Private foundation
The Olive Branch Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAHARISHI INTEGRATIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| Wildlife Habitat Conservancy Inc | $25,000 |
| J BABE STEARN BOYS CLUB | $1,000 |
| MAHARISHI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +653% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMaharishi Integrated Health Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $505k · revenue ×37 · 54% of their budget
- MFMaharishi Foundation International3× · 2020–2022 · $425k · revenue +102%
- MVMAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +653%
Funded once
- RRRaam Raj Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $265k · revenue +27%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $60k
- MIMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Maharishi Foundation International ↗
- Who funds Raam Raj Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Global Country of World Peace ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Olive Branch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Olive Branch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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