Texas · Nonprofit
MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION
MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,963,648 to it, the largest being TOM SLICK MEM TR-MIND SCIEN F0229100 ($2,684,838). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $617k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $439k
What Mind Science Foundation does
Programs
Education: the foundation holds public lectures to educate and increase the public's awareness of scientific research in neuroscience & psychology related to the human mind/brain, as well as educational content available via video, facebook, instagram and similar media forms.
$37,810 spentScience: the foundation makes research grants available to top scientists at leading universities for research focused on the human mind/brain, and neuroscience pitch competitions on the similar topics
$106,358 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2023 to 2024, from $781k to $528k (−32%).
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
Meriam M Good
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Juan Ramos Dominguez
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $17k → $415k.
1 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION’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
MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 57% · 2019 42% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 92% · 2023 88% — 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
50% of MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
99% of MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k 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.
Organizations like MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: 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 MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION?
- MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,963,648 to it, the largest being TOM SLICK MEM TR-MIND SCIEN F0229100 ($2,684,838). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,963,648 in grants to MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION?
- TOM SLICK MEM TR-MIND SCIEN F0229100 is the largest funder on record, with $2,684,838 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 16 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