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GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE

GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE (Iowa) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,258,827 to it, the largest being SILENT PARTNER GRANTS ($686,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$587k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$286k
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Global Projects for Peace does

Mission

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 corporation authorized to do business in Iowa" through programs bringing enlightenment to the individual, invincibility to every nation and world peace.Global Projects for Peace is engaged in supporting the work of MIU and BSF by engaging in the following charitable activities of the teaching of transcendental meditation and other consciousness-based programs in countries around the world including:--supporting the founding and development of transcendental meditation teaching organizations and consciousness-based schools in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, etc. Global Projects for Peace has supported such programs in more than 30 countries to date,--facilitating travel and participation of candidates from emerging countries in international t

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Engaging in the charitable activities of the teaching of transcendental meditation (TM) and other consciousness-based programs in over 15 countries around the world.

    $253,024 spentof which $133,704 as grants
    42% of program spending
  2. Consciousness-based education programs in uganda including primary and secondary education, school construction, instruction in tm and advanced tm programs, support for local tm centers

    $233,077 spentof which $220,534 as grants
    39% of program spending
  3. Consciousness-based education programs in thailand including primary and secondary education for underprivileged girls; general school support.

    $71,187 spentof which $71,187 as grants
    12% of program spending
  4. Conciousness-based education programs in mali including primary and secondary education, teacher salaries and general school support

    $46,498 spentof which $46,037 as grants
    8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $603,786.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($845k) Expenses 100 ($925k) Net assets 100 ($82k)2019 Revenue 127 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($984k) Net assets 302 ($249k)2020 Revenue 146 ($1.2M) Expenses 131 ($1.2M) Net assets 330 ($272k)2021 Revenue 137 ($1.2M) Expenses 123 ($1.1M) Net assets 356 ($294k)2022 Revenue 156 ($1.3M) Expenses 118 ($1.1M) Net assets 623 ($514k)2023 Revenue 114 ($961k) Expenses 120 ($1.1M) Net assets 446 ($368k)2024 Revenue 69 ($587k) Expenses 72 ($668k) Net assets 347 ($286k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (69)Expenses (72)Net assets (347)Peer revenue range

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 $299k to $516k (+72%).

$121k
$284k
$274k
$299k
$516k
$371k
$289k
2017201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$80k
’17
$90k
’19
$23k
’20
$22k
’21
$220k
’22
−$146k
’23
−$81k
’24
5.2
months of
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.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed14111114131312
Joined··+0+4+0+0+0
No longer listed··01101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $395k → $240k.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE’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

GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% 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 GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE.

30%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 60% · 2019 39% · 2020 36% · 2021 42% · 2022 34% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.

“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

36% of GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 10 states in all.

WA
NY
IA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $690k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE's revenue fell 31% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation · exempt
  • Maharishi International University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE?
GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE (Iowa) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,258,827 to it, the largest being SILENT PARTNER GRANTS ($686,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,258,827 in grants to GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE?
SILENT PARTNER GRANTS is the largest funder on record, with $686,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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