Iowa · Nonprofit
BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION
BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,564,879 to it, the largest being BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION ($6,049,039). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $77M
What Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation does
Mission
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 who also offer special vedic performances for the welfare of the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants to assist in supporting living expenses of over 5,000 vedic pandits in more than 70 locations throughout india and nepal. The grants to india and nepal are only a portion of the contributions collected to create world peace.
$3,862,500 spentof which $3,862,500 as grants31% of program spendingGrants to assist non-profit organizations around the world with goals similar to those of Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation. These grants provide expanded, broad-based support for bsf's educational and charitable mission to promote world peace through the practice of the vedic pandits and other coherence creating groups. The practice of these groups brings an influence of peace, coherence, and affluence in the collective consciousness for the whole world population.
$8,229,886 spentof which $8,229,886 as grants65% of program spendingIn-residence courses held at the brahmasthan of india provided over 500 participants from 60 different countries the opportunity to experience the tangible influence of the vedic pandits. These courses also included knowledge lectures of vedic science as well as presentations on the scientific research done on the individual and group practice of transcendental meditation. As a result of these courses, Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation expects expanded awareness of the unique value of its mission and hopes for added support.
$484,423 spent$551,234 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,576,809.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $97M to $86M (−11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
69% of BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr Harris Kaplan
CEO
Board chair
Dr Bevan Morris
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $620k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maharishi Purusha Program). These are real filings, and they are not money BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 51% · 2019 46% · 2020 54% · 2021 61% · 2022 85% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
56% of BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 119 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Japan Properties Holding LLC · disregarded
- Central Farm LLC · disregarded
- Mvc Farm LLC · disregarded
- Brahmananda Saraswati Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION?
- BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,564,879 to it, the largest being BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION ($6,049,039). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $13,564,879 in grants to BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION?
- BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,049,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing