California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,175,268 to it, the largest being EMERALD GATE CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,277,719). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Institute of Noetic Sciences does
Mission
The mission of the Institute of Noetic Sciences is to reveal the interconnected nature of reality through scientific exploration and personal discovery.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
With 50 years of experience ions is a respected though leader in the field of consciousness science.this fiscal year we conducted research on consciousness and its relationship to the physical world, including a focus on the creation of testable conceptual frameworks that integrate consciousness into the methods of science; and the design of experiments and global collaborations aimed to define the parameters of nonlocality, identify the optimal conditions under which psi and non-local effects emerge; and develop repeatable, credible demonstrations of consciousness-driven interactions.through these effort, we completed 10 research projects, collected 3,095 records through ions discovery lab, supported 9 research fellows, published 14 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and trained 20 volunteers.ions also served 51,400 individuals in its educational programs through webinars, member events, and online courses.
$2,296,043 spentof which $121,230 as grants$124,376 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,296,043.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.5M to $16M (+84%).
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.
83% of INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Claudia Welss
Executive chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 19 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $728k → $338k.
15 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 OF NOETIC SCIENCES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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 NOETIC SCIENCES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 NOETIC SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 56% · 2019 71% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 22% · 2023 40% — 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
33% of INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 OF NOETIC SCIENCES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 234 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES: 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 NOETIC SCIENCES?
- INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,175,268 to it, the largest being EMERALD GATE CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,277,719). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $5,175,268 in grants to INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES?
- EMERALD GATE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,277,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing