Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Michael Dukakis Institute Inc
Michael Dukakis Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being Planet Heritage Foundation Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $414k
What Michael Dukakis Institute Inc does
Mission
To develop leaders in technology and science while providing an ethical framework for future generations of innovators and influentials, who will create a safe and secure environment based on shared human values, dignity and respect for all Citizens of the World, and to enrich their leadership capability in the interest of global peace and security with an emphasis on generating ideas, developing solutions, and deploying initiatives to solve global issues involving Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Held conferences and events to recognize and award leaders in innovation and technology, including honoring DIgital pRime Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang with the 2025 World Leader in AIWS award and Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar with the 2025 World Leader for Peace and Security Award.
$83,324 spent70% of program spendingLeadership & Development Initiatives to attract distinguished scholars to contribute as well as to recognize and support rising leaders, through scholarships and related grants.
$35,047 spentof which $7,823 as grants30% of program spendingPublished the book "The AI World Society: A 30-Year US-Vietnam Partnership, From Nha Trang to Boston (1995-2025).
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,371.
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 2024 to 2025, from $255k to $414k (+62%).
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.
98% of Michael Dukakis Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Michael Dukakis Institute Inc’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
Michael Dukakis Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
“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
Michael Dukakis Institute Inc draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
Michael Dukakis Institute Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 Michael Dukakis Institute 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 Michael Dukakis Institute Inc?
- Michael Dukakis Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being Planet Heritage Foundation Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Michael Dukakis Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $56,000 in grants to Michael Dukakis Institute Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Michael Dukakis Institute Inc?
- Planet Heritage Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Michael Dukakis Institute Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 3 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