Colorado · Nonprofit
WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION
WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,610 to it, the largest being GREENWALD FOUNDATION ($152,332). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $731k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $0
What World Brain Forum Foundation does
Mission
The mission of World Brain Forum Foundation, operating as aspen brain institute, is to create a brain-healthy planet by democratizing access to the best minds and evidence based information on brain health, and to increase our level of brain health literacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the tax year, the organization made charitable contributions to several additional 501(c)(3) organizations, including the yud foundation, american friends of libi, family promise of greater denver, the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai, outer coast college, the la jolla institute for immunology, wayne state university, aspen flight academy, and college summit, inc. Although these recipients fall outside the organization's historically stated program focus, each entity is a recognized tax-exempt organization whose activities are consistent with, or complementary to, the organization's broader charitable mission. The expansion represents a modest and mission-aligned extension of the organization's grantmaking activities rather than a substantive change in exempt purpose. No material exposure or compliance risk has been identified. Out of an abundance of caution and in the interest of transparency, the organization may consider disclosing that its program services have expanded slightly to include grantmaking to additional qualified charitable organizations as described above. This disclosure ensures continued clarity regarding the scope of the organization's activities and its adherence to its exempt purpose under 501(c)(3).
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
World Brain Forum Foundation, operating as aspen brain institute, has continued operating to achieve their mission of democratizing global brain health by giving people access to the best minds and evidence-based information around the world. The organization aims to distill complex science and turn it into actionable knowledge for everyone.
$1,380,149 spentof which $1,380,149 as grants$152,332 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,380,149.
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 2024 to 2025, from $649k to $0 (−100%).
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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $73k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 WORLD BRAIN FORUM 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
WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 55% — 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
100% of WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k 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.
Organizations like WORLD BRAIN FORUM 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
13%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD BRAIN FORUM 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 WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION?
- WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,610 to it, the largest being GREENWALD FOUNDATION ($152,332). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $266,610 in grants to WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION?
- GREENWALD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $152,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD BRAIN FORUM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), 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