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The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

$20k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.0M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$15kEducation$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nuclear Alternative Project$15,0001n/a
Colorado School of Mines Foundation$10,00010%

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About The Breakthrough Institute

How much does The Breakthrough Institute give?
The Breakthrough Institute reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,000, out of $20,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Breakthrough Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Education (40%).
Who are The Breakthrough Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Nuclear Alternative Project ($15k), Colorado School of Mines Foundation ($10k).
Where is The Breakthrough Institute based?
The Breakthrough Institute is based in CA.

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 2 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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