Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AURELIA INSTITUTE INC
AURELIA INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,521,250 to it, the largest being Mathesar Foundation Inc ($1,805,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Aurelia Institute Inc does
Mission
Aurelia institute, inc. Was designed to develop the technologies, communities and policies that will help scale humanity's horizon from early space stations in low earth orbit to the fullness of an interplanetary civilization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Space architecture r&d: the organization is an advanced technology research institute for foundational infrastructure for a space society. The organization's experts are concerned with the structures, materials, technologies, and in-space manufacturing techniques that will make it possible to build larger-scale habitats and increase the number and diversity of people who can participate in life in orbit. As the organization's portfolio grows and can leverage the "road to space" of an emerging space economy, the organization will also explore surface habitats on celestial bodies in the near neighborhood of our solar system. The organization is a fast-moving fabrication and deployment team, with regular spaceflight launches to test and iterate on our engineering concepts. The organization is also a generator of translational intellectual property for the public benefit, with a highly collaborative model for spinning out new technologies that may contribute to life in space.
$900,629 spent$770,216 earned by the program65% of program spendingEducation & outreach: the organization wants to make space real and accessible to all people. People of all ages, backgrounds, and skill sets should have the opportunity to understand what space is about, what's available to them, how to get to space, and how they might live, play, and work effectively in different space environments. To that end, the organization creates and collaborates on outreach programs to engage broad audiences in direct spaceflight opportunities, educational courses to broaden access to insider knowledge and train the next generation, and community building to grow a global, professional membership network. The organization offers a best-in-class flight mission academy to open, diversify, and empower access to space exploration.
$476,029 spent34% of program spendingPolicy: the organization's policy arm considers the real and philosophical challenges of creating an inclusive, equitable, and accessible foundation for a society in space-from negotiating resource sharing in the "space commons," to key governance questions for future human settlements, to the ethics of novel technology development upon which human life in extreme environments will depend.
$16,211 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,392,869.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $1.5M to $1.9M (+27%).
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.
62% of AURELIA INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Ariel Ekblaw
CEO and board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $950k → $1.8M.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 AURELIA INSTITUTE INC’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
AURELIA INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 AURELIA INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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
AURELIA INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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
AURELIA INSTITUTE INC is better cushioned than half of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AURELIA INSTITUTE INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AURELIA INSTITUTE INC: 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 AURELIA INSTITUTE INC?
- AURELIA INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,521,250 to it, the largest being Mathesar Foundation Inc ($1,805,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AURELIA INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $4,521,250 in grants to AURELIA INSTITUTE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AURELIA INSTITUTE INC?
- Mathesar Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,805,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AURELIA INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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