California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,379,923 to it, the largest being Tiny Blue Dot Inc ($2,648,423). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,110 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Effective Ventures Foundation USA Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Good Ventures Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Berkeley Existential Risk Initiativeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
100% of INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $820k → $1.0M.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC’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
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 279 organizations that share them.
- Effective Ventures Foundation USA Incshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Good Ventures Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Berkeley Existential Risk Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manifold for Charity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BESS Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future of Life Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renaissance Philanthropy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Internet Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Every Orgshared fundersCA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Daffy Charitable Fundshared fundersCA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC?
- INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,379,923 to it, the largest being Tiny Blue Dot Inc ($2,648,423). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $3,379,923 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC?
- Tiny Blue Dot Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,648,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing