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INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042,500 to it, the largest being MARYADA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($992,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$469k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$-206829
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Institute of Advanced Sciences Inc does

Mission

The organization provides educational opportunities and educational conferences in the medical and health fields.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization is organized for academic, educational, research and scholarship with the following goals and objectives: to conduct research and scholarships;to offer educational opportunities;to provide training;to organize and hold conferences and workshops for researchers, businesses, government agencies, and the general public to learn and exchange knowledge and practices in science and to provide leadership in advancing educational, medical, health, economic and social values of scientific issues through prmoting studies, publications, recognition and forums for discussion.

    $482,753 spent$315,140 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $482,753.

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 ($553k) Expenses 100 ($557k) Net assets 100 ($46k)2020 Revenue 84 ($464k) Expenses 84 ($468k) Net assets -347 ($-159411)2021 Revenue 90 ($495k) Expenses 81 ($450k) Net assets -249 ($-114399)2022 Revenue 88 ($487k) Expenses 92 ($511k) Net assets -301 ($-138370)2023 Revenue 78 ($431k) Expenses 93 ($517k) Net assets -597 ($-274010)2024 Revenue 85 ($469k) Expenses 72 ($402k) Net assets -450 ($-206829)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (85)Expenses (72)Net assets (-450)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 $176k to $39k (−78%).

$79k
$136k
$176k
$39k
$48k
$57k
201720202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

59% of INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
−$4k
’20
$45k
’21
−$24k
’22
−$85k
’23
$67k
’24
0.5
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.

201720202021202220232024
Listed666611
Joined··+0+0··
No longer listed··00··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $205k → $121k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES 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 OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95% 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 INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 100% · 2023 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

95% of INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
DE

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record.

Federal$110k
grants $110kcontracts $0
18
19
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$110k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES 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 OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC?
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042,500 to it, the largest being MARYADA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($992,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,042,500 in grants to INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC?
MARYADA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $992,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC 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.

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 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