Florida · Nonprofit
THE FOUNDATION
THE FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being RED AUERBACH YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $138k
What The Foundation does
Mission
THE FOUNDATION is the first logic-based organization fundamentally designed to save the world. Specifically, our stated purpose is to end all preventable ailments throughout the world by giving every individual an equal opportunity to realize their maximum potential through self-sufficiency. Everything we do is guided by The Pono's 5 Elements of Wisdom: Logical Perseverance; Logical Empathy; Perpetual Self-Improvement; The Search for Truth; Enlighten Future Generations. These guiding principles allow us to catalyze empowerment by means of self-sufficiency, which is the key to enabling the oppressed, exploited, and disadvantaged to develop the cognitive competencies needed to save themselves. Achieving our grandiose vision will result in relief of the impoverished, the equalizing of the underprivileged, the diminution of the burdens of government, the elimination of societal deterioration, and allow for sustainable population growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Empowering Self-sufficiency - The Trading & Investing Club: The inaugural meeting of the T&I Club took place in late 2023. The Club exists as a forum for community members, especially those of relatively lower socioeconomic status, to discuss various trading and/or investing ideas. The T&I Club will enable its members to network with those across the entirety of the socioeconomic stratum. Logical reasoning, prudent risk assessment, and learning from our mistakes will be a fundamental, perpetual theme of the Club. The Trading & Investing Club is closely intertwined with The Endowment, which will be used as a unique learning experience for members of the Club...Empowering Self-sufficiency - The Great Boycott: The Great Boycott is a disciplined, methodical, logic-based system of boycotts and activism; it's a pivotal step in achieving equal opportunity for everyone, especially the children. There are a select few behemoth entities that have an exceptionally disproportionate amount of wealth and power in this world. This egregious imbalance in power leads to gross economic inefficiencies. Divisive, polarizing, and self-destructive social unrest necessarily follows. The Great Boycott is an effective, peaceful solution to the inevitable rebalancing of planetary wealth.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Community Safety: THE FOUNDATION has permanently closed all Community Safety operations in Tanzania. The contracted security guards were given 3 months notice. At the end of the year, the Founder called the head of security, Mr. Shempemba, and thanked everyone for their loyalty and hard work. They were all awarded 3 months of severance pay, which is unheard of in Tanzania (except, perhaps, when corrupt government officials set their own salaries).
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Community Safety: THE FOUNDATION renewed the contracts of 3 local security professionals to perform nightly patrols around the neighborhood of Ngunguti in Mkuranga, Tanzania. Their wages were above market rates to enable them to achieve a greater level of financial security. Not only did they perform regular patrols, but they were also able to assist community members in getting home safely and deescalating confrontational situations. This Community Safety Solution came to an end in 2023.
$7,114 spent69% of program spendingEmpowering Self-sufficiency - The Endowment: This FOUNDATION Solution is a quasi-endowment established by the Founder; it is a self-sufficient fund(s) that exists as a learning platform for the disadvantaged to empower their financial self-sufficiency. The Endowment may take years (even decades) to properly establish itself. Eventually, excess returns will be used to fund program services. The expenses of $1,482 are derived solely from service fees charged by the brokerage.
$1,482 spent14% of program spendingEmpowering Self-sufficiency: THE FOUNDATION hired the services of Mr. Shempemba, the head of security, to liquidate the remaining items left in Tanzania (stove, TV, blender, refrigerator, and table & chairs made by a local craftsman). He was given a 50% commission for motivation and economic empowerment. He used this supplemental income to expand his shop and add a security gate to his domicile. In addition, Ms. Katendele, the wife of Mr. Shempemba, performed cleaning and caretaker services. She was given 2 months severance for her part-time contract work for THE FOUNDATION.
$1,576 spent$599 earned by the program15% of program spendingEmpowering Self-sufficiency - Empowering Self-sufficiency: The Great Boycott. Minimal activist work was done to communicate this Solution to the general public. An MVP website was created at the domain thegreatboycott.world. $40 in expenses during this inaugural year of TGB.
$40 spent0% of program spendingEmpowering Self-sufficiency - The Trading & Investing Club: $15 in expenses for the inaugural year of the T&I Club.
$15 spent0% of program spendingOpen Source Initiatives - $120; TZ Taxes - $6
$126 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,353.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $335k to $463k (+38%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of THE 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
THE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 THE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 THE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE 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 THE FOUNDATION?
- THE FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being RED AUERBACH YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $75,000 in grants to THE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION?
- RED AUERBACH YOUTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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