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Ten to the Ninth Plus Foundation

FOUNDATION PROVIDES CASH GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ADDRESSING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE BENEFIT FOR MANKIND.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Science & Tech$58kEducation$40kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$14kCommunity Improvement$10kFood & Nutrition$6k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECUREBIO INC$20,000
DARSEL$15,050
JOY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY$10,000
BIOTECH WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SECUREBIO INC: $20k → 8%INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%EVERYORG: $15k → 10%DARSEL: $15k → 12%BIOTECH WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 13%CENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PENCILS OF PROMISE INC: $15k → 17%GENSPACE: $15k → 20%JOY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%CENTER FOR DISEASE ANALYSIS FOUNDATION: $14k → 12%THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $6k → 7%INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Genomic Data Initiative
Science & Tech
2
Center for Responsible Science
Philanthropy
3
Cge Lab Inc
Human Services
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Sapien Labs
Health
6
Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation
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7
Speculative Technologies Inc

Speculative technologies is a nonprofit research organization that runs coordinated research programs to unlock big-if-true technologies that are too speculative to be a startup but are too coordination- or engineering-heavy for academia…

Science & Tech
8
90-10instituteorg

create a new industry model to bring more affordable medicine to more people

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9
Paradox Science Institute
Science & Tech
10
Future House Inc

Our mission is to build an ai scientist, or ai systems, that can automate scientific research and accelerate the pace of discovery, so humanity can find cures for disease, solutions for climate change, and other species-accelerating…

Science & Tech
11
The Center for Global Enterprise Ltd

The CGE was established to help educate societal stakeholders as well as individuals from the private sector, the public sector, and academia on the globally integrated economy and its promise for a better future.

Public Benefit
12
Whole Genome Science Foundation Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Joy Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DARSEL: $15,050 · EducationDARSELGENSPACE NYC: $15,000 · EducationGENSPACE NYCJOY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationJOY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSECUREBIO INC: $20,000 · Science & TechSECUREBIO INCBiotech Without Borders Inc: $5,000 · Science & TechBiotech Without Bor…INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY ORG INC: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL…INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL…EVERY ORG: $15,050 · PhilanthropyEVERY ORGPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $15,000 · InternationalPENCILS OF …CENTER FOR DISEASE ANALYSIS FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · HealthCENTER FOR …CENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$40,050Science & Tech$25,000Other$17,500Philanthropy$15,050International$15,000Health$14,000Public Benefit$10,000Food & Nutrition$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVERY ORG: $15,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENSPACE NYC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR DISEASE ANALYSIS FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJOY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ten to the Ninth Plus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ten to the Ninth Plus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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