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The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

AI2'S MISSION IS TO CONDUCT HIGH-IMPACT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING IN SERVICE OF THE COMMON GOOD, AND TO DEVELOP APPLICATIONS OF AI THAT CONTRIBUTE TO HUMANITY AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Science & Tech$7.7MEducation$6.0MEnvironment$478kRecreation & Sports$218kAnimals$135k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $434k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.0M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISRAEL LTD$2,300,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$2,297,500
THE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISRAEL LTD$426,433
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FDN$100,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$75,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$59,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 75% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($3.6M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HYPOTHESIS PROJECT: $50k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 25% of all-years giving ($3.6M)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$3.6M · 4 grants
Kenya$15k · 1 grant
South Africa$5k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 76% of The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 1%.

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligencelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 25% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 8 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$13M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+22%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentScience & TechRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $375k · revenue +61%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue +27%
  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $218k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $448k · revenue +31%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $243k
  • ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue -68%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
5
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carnegie Mellon University; the most unlike its peers is Commoncrawl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 30 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $4,382,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONTHE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISRAEL LTD: $3,592,273 · OtherTHE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISRAEL LTDUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $3,345,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON+8 more: $760,070 · Other+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $375,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $325,000 · EducationMassachusett…University of Illinois Foundation: $200,000 · EducationUniversity o…ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $110,000 · EducationADA DEVELOPE…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationOHIO STATE U…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …Cornell University: $100,000 · EducationCornell Univ…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…Williams College: $100,000 · EducationWilliams Col…+3 more: $92,000 · Education+3 moreCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $448,411 · EnvironmentNorthwestern University: $218,204 · Recreation & SportsWILDLIFE GUARDIANS: $115,000 · AnimalsCONSERVATION X LABS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsHypothesis Project: $50,000 · Human ServicesCommoncrawl Foundation: $25,000 · Science & TechGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $15,000 · International
Other$12,079,843Education$1,602,000Environment$448,411Recreation & Sports$218,204Animals$130,000Human Services$50,000Science & Tech$25,000International$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $448,411 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $325,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $218,204 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE GUARDIANS: $115,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $110,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommoncrawl Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION X LABS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa: 2% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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