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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,722 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF OF SUFFERING ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$258k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$30k
Grants received
$368k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 297 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($232k)2019 Revenue 241 ($215k) Expenses 356 ($174k) Net assets 118 ($273k)2020 Revenue 122 ($109k) Expenses 129 ($63k) Net assets 138 ($319k)2021 Revenue 98 ($88k) Expenses 184 ($90k) Net assets 137 ($317k)2022 Revenue 187 ($167k) Expenses 306 ($149k) Net assets 144 ($334k)2023 Revenue 309 ($275k) Expenses 618 ($302k) Net assets 133 ($307k)2024 Revenue 290 ($258k) Expenses 404 ($197k) Net assets 159 ($368k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (290)Expenses (404)Net assets (159)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
18
$41k
19
$46k
20
$2k
21
$17k
22
$26k
23
$61k
24
22
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $15k.

From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES’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

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 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

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.

MN
MD

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

17
20
Virginia 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

26
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES?
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,722 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF OF SUFFERING ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,722 in grants to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES?
FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF OF SUFFERING is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY- OF-LIFE STUDIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing