Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION
SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,079,503 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($650,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $241k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $362k
What Socratus Collective Wisdom Corporation does
Mission
Socratus Collective Wisdom Corporation conducts scientific research,lite rary exposition and educational offerings for social and environmental problems within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Socratus strives for a flourishing society on a thriving planet. Climate change, pandemics,automation, inequality are all wicked problems to which reasonable people can have wildlydifferent solutions. Socratus brings together the right people, I.e., people embedded in theproblems they want to solve, to carefully designed spaces. We also produce and distribute tools toimagine, think and solve by facilitating learning spaces on those wicked problems in partnershipwith a broad range of stakeholders in academia, civil society, government and business.
$465,810 spentof which $649,165 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $465,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $81k to $774k (+855%).
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 SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $300k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION’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
SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 59% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION: 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 SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION?
- SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,079,503 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($650,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,079,503 in grants to SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCRATUS COLLECTIVE WISDOM CORPORATION 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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