Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 81%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 291
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 81% of the organizations Breakthrough Prize Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $13M | 88% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $39M | 81% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $54M | 94% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $32M | 93% |
| FY2021 | 103 | $13M | 95% |
| FY2020 | 291 | $9.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milky Way Research Foundation | $63,954,465 | 5 | 100% |
| Airbnborg Inc | $21,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| National Academy of Sciences | $5,400,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $4,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $1,870,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $400,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Arid1b Research Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $120,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milky Way Research Foundation | $63,954,465 | 5 | 100% |
| Airbnborg Inc | $21,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| National Academy of Sciences | $5,400,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $4,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $1,870,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $400,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Arid1b Research Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $120,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seti Institute | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Altos Chabad | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kings Care Foundation | $10,363 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 477 recipients with no EIN on record ($58M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Breakthrough Prize Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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About Breakthrough Prize Foundation
- How much does Breakthrough Prize Foundation give?
- Breakthrough Prize Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $12,901,104 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 291 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Breakthrough Prize Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (66%), International (16%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Breakthrough Prize Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Milky Way Research Foundation ($64M), Airbnborg Inc ($21M), National Academy of Sciences ($5.4M).
- Does Breakthrough Prize Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Breakthrough Prize Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Breakthrough Prize Foundation based?
- Breakthrough Prize Foundation is based in DC.
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