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World Brain Forum Foundation

The mission of WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION, operating as aspen brain institute, is to create a brain-healthy planet by democratizing access to the best minds and evidence based information on brain health, and to increase our level of brain health literacy.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$880kEducation$375kPhilanthropy$350kInternational$150kEnvironment$125kHousing & Shelter$100kYouth Development$80kArts & Culture$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$150,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YUD FOUNDATION INC$350,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$200,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT NY$200,000
OUTER COAST COLLEGE$150,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI$150,000
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE IMMUNOLOGY$125,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER$100,000
COLLEGE SUMMITT INC$80,149
ASPEN FLIGHT ACADEMY$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHAMNOW INC: $50k → 9%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

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MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
DC
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.
03Its 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
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Summit Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yud 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.
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 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONOUTER COAST: $150,000 · EducationOUTER COASTCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC: $80,149 · EducationCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC+1 more: $25,000 · EducationYud Foundation Inc: $350,000 · ReligionYud Foundation IncLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $125,000 · OtherLA JOLLA INST…FANTASTIC FUNGI LLC: $70,000 · OtherFANTASTIC FUN…NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $62,500 · OtherNEW YORK ACAD…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $150,000 · InternationalFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesWHAMNOW INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesOceanic Preservation Society: $125,000 · EnvironmentUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $5,175 · Health
Education$1,155,149Religion$350,000Other$257,500International$150,000Human Services$150,000Environment$125,000Health$5,175

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOUTER COAST: $150,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetOceanic Preservation Society: $125,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC: $80,149 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $62,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWHAMNOW INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $5,175 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Greenwald FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greenwald FoundationCO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greenwald Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 World Brain Forum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Brain Forum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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, 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.
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    How do I get to World Brain Forum Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to World Brain Forum Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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