Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION
FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,588 to it, the largest being TIAA CHARITABLE INC ($12,581). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $0
What False Memory Syndrome Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation is to seek the reasons for the spread of false memory syndrome, to work for the prevention of new cases of false memory syndrome, and to aid the victims, both primary and secondary, of false memory syndrome throughout the united states and abroad.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Various forms of communications with families, professionals, the media and the public to disseminate information about false memory syndrome; planning, implementing and reporting results of scientific research projects relevant to mission.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $62k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $7.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION?
- FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,588 to it, the largest being TIAA CHARITABLE INC ($12,581). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,588 in grants to FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION?
- TIAA CHARITABLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2 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