Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,467 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($861,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 64 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 64 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocal
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incportfolio match
- Missouri Incutech Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 70% · 2022 69% · 2023 68% · 2024 65% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $152k.
From the IRS filings of ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Incutech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seti Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fuzehub Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alfred P Sloan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pa Irc Network Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercatus Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Grable Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 139 organizations that share your funders · funds 285 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $328.2M on record.
- Department of Defense$305.5M
- Department of Commerce$19.7M
- Department of Labor$3.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Carnegie Mellon University · exempt
- Benjamin Garver Lamme Scholarship Fund · exempt
- Jack G Buncher Charitable Fund for Carn · exempt
- Mpc Corporation · exempt
- The Dietrich Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE?
- ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,467 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($861,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,340,467 in grants to ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $861,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing