Iowa · Nonprofit
MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC
MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,397,257 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($911,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Maharishi Foundation USA Inc does
Mission
Maharishi foundation usa is a not-for-profit educational organization whose purpose is to administer and supervise the teaching of transcendental meditation programs and its advanced programs throughout the united states. This includes offering programs in all areas of maharishi's vedic science and technology that are needed to create healthy, happy, enlightened individuals in a prosperous and harmonious society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Teaching Transcendental Meditation to 15,510 people throughout the United States in venues open to the general public. Transcendental Meditation and Consciousness Based Education was taught to 2,357 students, in public and private school settings. It also was taught to Veterans and others with PTSD. Grant funding was included in the expenses of this program to accommodate more individuals. 1,353 participants enrolled in The Advanced Programs of Trancendental Meditation. The Program was predominantly taught by traveling Expert Faculty who visited cities all over the U.S.
$11,493,350 spentof which $1,109,040 as grants98% of program spendingIn-Residence program for Maharishi Vedic Experts funded by donations. Additionally, In-Residence program for an average of 65 practitioners of the TM-Sidhis, participating in group coherence creating programs.
$122,627 spent1% of program spendingAverage of 40 practitioners of the TM-Sidhis techniques, participating in daily assemblies of group coherence creating programs. Grant funding is included in the program.
$168,713 spentof which $139,374 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,784,690.
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 $13M to $16M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 0% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Dr John Hagelin
CEO & director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $141k → $307k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maharishi International University); $1.5M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Maharishi Foundation USA Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 41% · 2019 56% · 2020 45% · 2021 52% · 2022 54% · 2023 62% — 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
31% of MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
54% of MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC'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. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA 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 MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC?
- MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,397,257 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($911,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $2,397,257 in grants to MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $911,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 47 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