New York · Nonprofit
The International Focusing Institute Inc
The International Focusing Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,892 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($184,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $521k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $345k
What The International Focusing Institute Inc does
Mission
The International Focusing Institute Inc is an international, cross cultural organization dedicated to disseminating the work of Eugene Gendlin and the practice of felt sensing, as well as supporting individuals and groups world-wide who are teaching, practicing and developing the Focusing, Thinking at the Edge and the philosophy of the implicit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership Certification Services The majority of our work has to do with assisting our members and teachers, including dealing with all aspects of certification and connecting members of the community with one another. In 2024, our membership increased to 2,465 individuals from 72 countries We have 238 Coordinators from 36 countries, who teach and offer certification through the Institute. We offer a number of free programs for our members including Roundtablesconversations on a variety of topics Cafecitos or Mesas Redondas Spanish language online gatherings for members, Reading Freshly reading the book Focusing over the course of a year. We continued a new tradition, Honoring Milestones, and added Pop Up Focusing, a chance to connect with others in the Focusing Partnership Network.
$92,039 spent$238,760 earned by the program26% of program spendingClasses, Conferences, Products We continue to be generous in scholarships to our programs, including DEI scholarships to encourage more particiaption from under represented groups. Classes and conferences included the annual Weeklong once again as a hybrid event with most people participating online, with a small but mighty group in person in Connecticut alongside the core teaching team. We also had an all Spanish language Academia de Focusing, a second English language Focusing Academy, and a TAE Academy. We continued our Highlights classes, continued the A Process Model Reading Group, had classes on Social Oriented Focusing and held the Children Focusing Conference Less is More.
$176,998 spent$167,722 earned by the program50% of program spendingGendlin Center Gendlin Legacy Pause for Peace The Gendlin Center awarded the 4th Gendlin Grant for Reseach in Psychology to Marisa Hoslet of Belgium for her research project A Mixed Methods Approach to Enhancing Student Well Being Exploring Focusing, Mindfulness and Fear of Failure Training. They also offered an online presentation to the public with the theme Gendlins Approach to Words and Meaning Invites Creativity. They also conducted a survey to find as exhaustive a list as possible of people teaching Gendlin in university settings. It maintains a list of dissertations which make mention or use of Gendlin and other information useful to researchers at GendlinCenter.org
$84,958 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $353,995.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $243k to $302k (+24%).
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. 3 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 held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $60k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 International Focusing Institute Inc’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 International Focusing Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
95% 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 International Focusing Institute Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of The International Focusing Institute Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The International Focusing Institute Inc?
- The International Focusing Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,892 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($184,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The International Focusing Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $217,892 in grants to The International Focusing Institute Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The International Focusing Institute Inc?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $184,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The International Focusing Institute Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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