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Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,750 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,750). 1 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
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $160k
What Institute on Religion in an Age of Science does
Mission
To promote creative efforts leading to the formulation in the light of contemporary knowledge of effective doctrines and practices for human welfare. To formulate dynamic and positive relationships between the concepts developed by science and the goals and hopes of humanity expressed through religion. To state human values and contemporary knowledge in universal and valid terms that they may be understood by all peoples whatever their cultural background and experience and provide a basis for world-wide cooperation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conducted weeklong conference titled Spiritual Experience: A Scientific Philosophical and Theological Retreat In recent decades we have seen an increase in scientific philosophical and theological research focused on the processes involved in spiritual transformation. This has generated a more comprehensive science-based understanding including physical psychological and substance-induced approaches that promote intentional opening to spiritual experience. There is evidence that we have a spiritual core central and innermost biologically wired into us that is normally outside of awareness that there are ways to open and engage that core and that when people open to that awareness they often describe the experience as mystical or numinous.
$38,655 spent81% of program spendingSponsored monthly series of webinars covering a wide range of topics related to the intersection of science and religion. 200 to 300 viewers per month with previous sessions available for streaming from the IRAS website.
$940 spent2% of program spendingCoincident with our annual conference we provided an educational youth program known as Archipelagos, for children of conference attendees from two years old through high school.
$8,119 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,714.
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.
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 $190k to $145k (−24%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
2 of 2 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 on Religion in an Age of Science’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 on Religion in an Age of Science leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
100% 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 on Religion in an Age of Science.
“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 on Religion in an Age of Science'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. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Institute on Religion in an Age of Science: 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 on Religion in an Age of Science?
- Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,750 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,750). 1 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 on Religion in an Age of Science have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,750 in grants to Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Institute on Religion in an Age of Science?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Institute on Religion in an Age of Science find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 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