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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $979k
What Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies Inc does
Mission
The institute for advanced consciousness ("iacs or organization") is dedicated to furthering the scientific understanding of consciousness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Accelerating meditation and fostering empathy through neuroscience. Our research explores the frontiers of consciousness and empathy using cutting-edge neurotechnology.neuroimaging-guided neuromodulation: we employ fmri, eeg, and machine learning to identify and induce deep meditative states in vipassana practitioners, aiming to expedite and prolong these experiences.virtual reality neurofeedback: utilizing eeg and vr, we guide meditators to optimal states, focusing on efficiency, duration, and adaptability for novices.continued on schedule oemulating entheogenic states: we simulate self-transcendent experiences to enhance empathic concern, advancing our understanding of consciousness.prosocial ai development: we're investigating methods to cultivate empathy in artificial agents through targeted learning curricula.aesthetic chills as belief catalysts: we explore how profound aesthetic experiences can reshape mindsets towards more beneficial paradigms.our goal: to deepen scientific insights into consciousness while developing tools to enrich human experience and foster empathy in both biological and artificial intelligences.
$1,180,988 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,180,988.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $642k to $1.2M (+90%).
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
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.
Board chair
Christof Koch
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 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
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC
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 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.
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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.
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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 7 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