· Public charity
The Foresight Institute
The Foresight Institute works to advance science and technology for the benefit of life through grants, events, prizes, and fellowships.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $749k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Empiriqal Inc | $145,419 |
| FAR AI Inc | $107,110 |
| University of Pennsylvania | $100,000 |
| Midfield Scurity LLC | $90,000 |
| Convergence Analysis | $77,116 |
| MATS Research Inc | $70,000 |
| Ashgro Inc | $59,200 |
| Neurotrust LLC | $50,000 |
| Institute for Advanced Consc | $50,000 |
| Open Collective Foundation | $20,000 |
| Church of Jesus Christ-Latter | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $596k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $546k to organizations and $50k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Research Grant
Stated purpose: Research grants
Stated purpose: Research Grant
Stated purpose: Research grant
Stated purpose: Award & Doctoral grant
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Foresight Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foresight Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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