California · Nonprofit
Ai Objectives Institute
Ai Objectives Institute (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,174,927 to it, the largest being The Foresight Institute ($1,101,313). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Ai Objectives Institute does
Mission
To ensure that the optimization power of large scale systems, such as AI, Markets, and Bureaucracies, advances the interests of humanity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Talk to the City (T3C) is an open-source tool that helps large groups of people coordinate by understanding each other better. Its designed for public consultations, civic dialogue, and collaborative problem-solvingany situation where many voices need to be heard and turned into actionable insights. Unlike most AI tools, which summarize text but risk producing errors or hallucinations, T3C is built for trust, and structures the summarized public input so that every theme or idea is grounded directly in participant quotes. Its reports allow decision-makers to see broad themes, then drill down to the exact statements behind them. This design makes the analysis not only more reliable, but also auditableparticipants and stakeholders can check that their words are represented faithfully.
$548,323 spent61% of program spendingResearch & Writing: The Institute conducts theoretical and academic research into the systems and paradigms used for the design, development, and use of AI technologies. Specifically, the institute seeks to understand how, when, why, and for what purposes an actor would employ AI technologies, and use this contextual understanding to develop technical and policy frameworks to guide the use of AI in a responsible and socially beneficial manner. Practically, the Institutes theoretical and academic research involves using Institute personnel or hired contractors to assess or analyze the applicability or use of AI technologies across disciplines such as economics, political science, sociology, and cognitive science, and to propose or consider frameworks for constructing, developing, or utilizing AI technologies for socially beneficial purposes. In most cases the work will result in a published white paper or academic article that analyzes the risks, incentives, and capabilities of AI technologies in the applicable context.
$199,737 spent22% of program spendingMoral Learning:Aligning technology to human objectives requires understanding those objectives, and the virtues and values behind them. Through this work, we hope to find answers to the questions of what it means for an AI to represent moral virtue and values, and what components are required to build such systems. The aim is both transparency (understanding what is represented in an LLM) and complementary tools (adding what is missing with an explicit reasoning layer), using cutting-edge computational approaches to social reasoning.
$104,339 spent12% of program spendingOther General Programs and Events
$53,583 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $905,982.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $846k to $1.6M (+86%).
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.
100% of Ai Objectives Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Brittney Gallagher
Board Chair & V
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $437k → $1.1M.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ai Objectives 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
Ai Objectives Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ai Objectives Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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
99% of Ai Objectives Institute's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $563k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
Ai Objectives Institute runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Ai Objectives Institute
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ai Objectives 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ai Objectives Institute?
- Ai Objectives Institute (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,174,927 to it, the largest being The Foresight Institute ($1,101,313). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ai Objectives Institute have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,174,927 in grants to Ai Objectives Institute, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ai Objectives Institute?
- The Foresight Institute is the largest funder on record, with $1,101,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ai Objectives Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing