Oregon · Nonprofit
PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL
PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being HELIOS FOUNDATION ($95,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $588k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $245k
What Process Studies International does
Mission
We conduct interdisciplinary research and education to cultivate holistic understanding for advancing human and planetary flourishing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the year, the organization organized 5 international conferences and symposia focused on process-relational thought and its applications to science, philosophy, religion, psychology, and ecological civilization. These included the Renewing Faith conference focused on process and open and relational theologies and featuring 28 scholars, professors, and ministers as speakers; the Revitalizing Biophilosophy conference featuring approximately 15 experts from a range of philosophical and scientific fields; the Process Philosophy, Plasma Cosmology, and Transpersonal Psychology conference at University of Exeter, United Kingdom, co-organized with the University of Exeter, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Hawaii Manoa; the 18th International Forum on Ecological Civilization and 7th Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization, held at Pomona College and featuring more than 90 presenters from around the world; and the International Symposium on Organic Process Philosophy, Traditional Chinese Culture, and Ecological Civilization, hosted at Zhejiang Normal University and featuring talks by 18 scholars from China, South Korea, Canada, and the United States.…
$167,782 spent$18,523 earned by the program55% of program spendingDuring the year, the organization offered several online courses, including courses on philosophy, sciences, religion, ecological civilization, and the arts. The organization also hosted ongoing learning circles and reading groups, and launched SPARKS-a new arts collective dedicated to exploring process-relational experience through creativity and the arts. The organization also continued international educational and network-building work through programs connected to China and ecological civilization. The 18th Process Summer Academy, a week-long intensive course held at Zhejiang Normal University and Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University, served two dozen students and supported cross-cultural education in process thought, traditional Chinese culture, and ecological civilization. Across these community learning programs, the organization offered approximately 7 courses, 5 learning circles and recurring discussion programs, 4 community cohorts structured around special interests, 1 online certificate program in process thought & practices, and 1 Summer Academy. Many courses averaged around 40 participants from the general public. These programs served students, scholars,…
$85,000 spent$10,650 earned by the program28% of program spendingDuring the year, the organization published two issues of Process Studies journal, including a special issue on Whitehead's legacy at Harvard inspired by a prior CPS conference. The organization also published a new book on Whitehead and Teilhard, which grew out of previous conference programming, and a new book titled Renewing Faith, which emerged from the organization's conference and programming on process and open and relational theologies. The organization also continued developing new research initiatives and publication platforms. This included planning and issuing calls for papers for future conferences and research projects, including the Mind-at-Large Project on consciousness studies, and the 14th International Whitehead Conference; the creation of multi-media resources, including a new podcast series, YouTube videos, and an Educator's Toolbox (a set of resources for those teaching process thought). The organization also launched a call for submissions for the first issue of the Journal of Ecological Civilization Studies, a new publication dedicated to interdisciplinary research on ecological civilization. Through these publication and research activities, the…
$45,000 spent$14,875 earned by the program15% of program spendingIn addition to the major program services described above, the organization supported other mission-related activities, including a memorial event honoring the life and legacy of the organization's founder. These activities contributed to the organization's broader educational and community-building mission by preserving institutional memory, strengthening networks of scholars and practitioners, and honoring the intellectual and spiritual legacy that continues to guide the organization's work.
$10,000 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $307,782.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $69k to $245k (+258%).
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.
92% of PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
William Andrew Schwartz
Executive Director
Board chair
John McDaniel
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL’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
PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state 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
PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL: 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 PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL?
- PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being HELIOS FOUNDATION ($95,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $105,000 in grants to PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL.
- Who is the largest funder of PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL?
- HELIOS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROCESS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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