California · Nonprofit
ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION
ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Mercatus Center Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $810k
What Arc Prize Foundation does
Mission
The Arc Prize Foundation advances progress toward artificial general intelligence (agi) by creating public benchmarks, running competitions,and fostering a global research community. We educate students, researchers, and the broader public about intelligence and model performance, ensuring that scientific progress is transparent and widely understood.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Competitions and research prizes: arc prize facilitated competitive research by awarding paper prizes to community members producing significant advances in ai benchmarking. These competitions encouraged innovative methods for evaluating general intelligence and generated peer-reviewed work that advances the scientific understanding of ai systems. Prizes served as both recognition and incentive for cutting-edge research.
$147,159 spentof which $147,159 as grants55% of program spendingPublic model testing and reporting: arc prize tested publicly available ai models against our benchmark tasks, publishing results and analyses for the research community and general public. This program provided transparent data on model performance, educated the public about the state of ai, and established baseline metrics for evaluating progress toward agi. By sharing findings openly, arc prize helped labs, researchers, and policymakers understand model capabilities and limitations.
$77,465 spent29% of program spendingUniversity tour and education outreach: in 2024, arc prize hosted a nationwide university tour, visiting over 15 schools across the united states. Through lectures, workshops, and discussions, we educated thousands of students about the arc prize mission, our approach to measuring intelligence, and opportunities for participation in ai benchmarking research. This program expanded awareness of agi research and inspired a new generation of students to engage with the field
$45,000 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $269,624.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
4%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION: 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 ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION?
- ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Mercatus Center Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION?
- Mercatus Center Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARC PRIZE FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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