Iowa · Nonprofit
MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT
MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,353,038 to it, the largest being MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW ($1,646,980). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $487k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $145k
What Maharishi University of Enlightenment does
Mission
To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Maharishi University of Enlightenment (MUE) faculty continue to create and launch new enrichment courses of special interest to women, which we offer on our online learning platform mueonline.org.One MA student and one PhD student still have their theses outstanding in order to complete all the requirements for their degrees.Maharishi University of Enlightenment faculty continued to work with the Department of Science of Creative Intelligence for Management at Rajapark Institute, Thailand, a department founded by PhD graduates of MUE, to offer their bachelors degree program.Maharishi University of Enlightenment continues to work with Maharishi International University (MIU) on joint collaborations. This year, these included two Forest Academies (two-week knowledge and experience retreats) for MIU students and a 45-minute knowledge class offered once a week by MUE for MIU students.The University continued to run its popular website, www.globalgoodnews.com, which in addition to its daily news section serves as a resource for the knowledge and programs available in the field of Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology of Consciousness. The University continued to work with Maharishi…
$358,763 spent$16,738 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $358,763.
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 $8.1M to $2.0M (−75%).
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.
96% of MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $320k → $184k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT’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
MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
99% 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 UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 74% · 2019 74% · 2020 77% · 2021 76% · 2022 74% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT: 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 UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT?
- MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,353,038 to it, the largest being MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW ($1,646,980). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,353,038 in grants to MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT?
- MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW is the largest funder on record, with $1,646,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT 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.
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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 4 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