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MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION

MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,925,148 to it, the largest being TOM SLICK MEM TR-MIND SCIEN F0229100 ($2,684,838). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$617k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$2.9M
Grants received
$439k
Net assets
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 88%

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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($541k) Expenses 100 ($594k) Net assets 100 ($621k)2018 Revenue 100 ($539k) Expenses 97 ($573k) Net assets 94 ($586k)2019 Revenue 97 ($522k) Expenses 98 ($584k) Net assets 85 ($525k)2020 Revenue 104 ($562k) Expenses 84 ($501k) Net assets 94 ($586k)2021 Revenue 91 ($492k) Expenses 92 ($546k) Net assets 86 ($532k)2022 Revenue 113 ($611k) Expenses 98 ($583k) Net assets 90 ($560k)2023 Revenue 88 ($474k) Expenses 92 ($546k) Net assets 79 ($487k)2024 Revenue 114 ($617k) Expenses 112 ($665k) Net assets 71 ($439k)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (112)Net assets (71)
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $17k → $415k.

1 of 13 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 92% 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

92%
largest funder
96%
top three
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effective funders

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; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

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

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Texas out of state home

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.

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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION

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 Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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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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 MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION?
MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,925,148 to it, the largest being TOM SLICK MEM TR-MIND SCIEN F0229100 ($2,684,838). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,925,148 in grants to MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION, 9 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 13funders 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