Minnesota · Nonprofit
ON BEING PROJECT
ON BEING PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,638,281 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,053,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What On Being Project does
Mission
The On Being Project is a nonprofit media and social healing organization. Our mission is to pursue deep thinking and moral imagination, social creativity and joy, towards the renewal of inner life, outer life, and life together. We produce the award-winning global podcast "on being" with krista tippett, and an ecosystem of offerings across content, convenings, and tools/resources that nourish and amplify the generative narrative of our time. People engage with on being to explore the great questions of meaning as they are newly and urgently alive in 21st century life: what does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? Who will we be to each other?
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fiscal year 2025, the On Being Project's work continued to focus on developing an ecosystem of offerings and serving our far-flung global web of listeners/practitioners. The people who gather around on being are part of the generative narrative of our time. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. On being's conversations on-air and off create opening. In a political and cultural space that rewards fear, ferments argument, and hastens closure, on being nourishes learning and growth, newness, and evolution.
$1,839,534 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,839,534.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.4M to $3.1M (−58%).
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: 2022 5% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ON BEING PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $2.9M.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 ON BEING PROJECT’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
ON BEING PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
38% 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 ON BEING PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 57% · 2019 35% · 2020 28% · 2021 70% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — 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
29% of ON BEING PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
ON BEING PROJECT draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
ON BEING PROJECT is better cushioned than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ON BEING PROJECT
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ON BEING PROJECT: 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 ON BEING PROJECT?
- ON BEING PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,638,281 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,053,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ON BEING PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $27,638,281 in grants to ON BEING PROJECT, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ON BEING PROJECT?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,053,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ON BEING PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing