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Fathom Ai Inc

Fathom ai's mission is to find, build and scale innovative governance solutions for ai that foster public trust in ai, while unleashing the power of american innovation.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $218k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE$1,000,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$300,000
THE CREATIVE COALITION$67,500
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION$50,000
CREDO 23 FOUNDATION$50,000
THE FUTURE SOCIETY INC$20,000
EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT INC$20,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL: $50k → 8%THE FUTURE SOCIETY INC: $20k → 16%CREDO 23 FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT INC: $20k → 14%THE CREATIVE COALITION: $68k → 17%THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $300k → 14%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $1.0M → 14%FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute for Progress

The institute for progress (ifp) is a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. our organization works to accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological and industrial progress.

Social Science
2
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

3
Technology Policy Institute
International
4
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
5
Council for Innovation Promotion

Council for innovation promotion is a bipartisan coalition dedicated to promoting strong and effective intellectual property rights that drive innovation, boost economic competitiveness, and improve lives elsewhere.

6
The Conference Board Inc

The Conference Board is the member-driven think tank that delivers trusted insights for what's ahead. We help Members anticipate "What's Ahead," improve their performance, and better serve society. Founded in 1916, we are a non-partisan,…

Community Improvement
7
Center for the National Interest

The center is a non-partisan public policy institution established by former president richard nixon. its current programs focus on energy, security, climate change and u.s. relations with china, japan, russia and the middle east.

Public Benefit
8
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
11
Institute for Energy Research

The institute for energy research (ier) is a not-for-profit organization that conducts intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. ier maintains that freely functioning…

Environment
12
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Credo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $1,000,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE+1 more — $20,000 · InternationalTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $300,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE I…THE CREATIVE COALITION — $67,500 · OtherCREDO INC — $50,000 · OtherPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION — $50,000 · HealthEFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Public Benefit
International$1,020,000Social Science$300,000Other$117,500Education$50,000Health$50,000Public Benefit$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CREATIVE COALITION — $67,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCREDO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetTHE FUTURE SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fathom Ai Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fathom Ai Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fathom Ai Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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