Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL
THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,074,548 to it, the largest being ROBERT GALVIN FOUNDATION ($600,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential is to conduct research in and treatment of normal persons, as well as persons afflicted with problems of movement and communication, and to teach and develop new procedures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hurt children program - historically, children diagnosed with developmental delay, cerebral palsy, autism, trisomy 21 (down syndrome), attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, learning problems, dyslexia, and a host of other symptomatic diagnoses have been considered hopeless. The objective of the institutes is to take special needs children, however severely hurt, and help them to achieve normality physically, intellectually, physiologically and socially. The majority of children achieve one of these goals, and many children achieve two of these goals. Some children achieve all of these goals, and some children achieve none of these goals.
$1,100,913 spent$815,221 earned by the program61% of program spendingWell children program - the institutes is internationally known for its pioneering work in child brain development. The objective of the institutes is to help all children achieve intellectual, physical, and social excellence. When the institutes began more than a half-century ago, it was thought that very young children were not able to learn much. Many thought at that time that intelligence was genetically determined and essentially unchangeable. Glenn doman and his early team questioned this notion. They proposed that the brain had enormous potential and that this potential was not being fully realized. They wanted to give children a chance to be whatever they wanted to be and to be the very best they could achieve. Well children can achieve excellence.
$643,458 spent$18,009 earned by the program35% of program spendingGentle revolution press - the institutes creates, publishes, and distributes the highest-quality materials and books to further the mission of the institutes.
$75,299 spent$123,213 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,819,670.
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 2017 to 2018, from $10M to $8.1M (−22%).
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 20% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Janet Doman
Director & chief executive officer
Board chair
Mihai Dimancescu Md
Chairman (dec'd 3/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $114k → $131k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL’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 INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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: 2017 88% · 2018 90% · 2019 85% · 2020 71% · 2021 63% · 2022 85% · 2023 76% — 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
78% of THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Brookfield Events LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL?
- THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,074,548 to it, the largest being ROBERT GALVIN FOUNDATION ($600,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,074,548 in grants to THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL?
- ROBERT GALVIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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