Massachusetts · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL
INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000). 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 FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $182k
What Institute for American Religious and Philosophical does
Mission
990 ez, part iii - primary exempt purpose to bring together a community of productive scholars with diverse theological and philosophical perspectives. To contribute to the academic study of religion and philosophy through interpretive critical and constructive reflections upon distinctly american religious and philosophical thought. To foster broad discussion of relevant options through its sponsorship of conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops, and publications. To connect theological and philosophical reflections, especially where these efforts utilize american philosophical and religious traditions, and to study the history and
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Annual conference for religion and philosophical study
$5,501 spent64% of program spendingScholarship program
$3,104 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,605.
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 2024 to 2025, from $139k to $182k (+31%).
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.
30% of INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL’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.
Where its funders are
100% of INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL'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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL: 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 AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL?
- INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000). 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 INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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