Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION
BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,630,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,850,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Breakthrough Prize Foundation does
Programs
See general explanation
$13,437,758 spentSee general explanation
$10,150,000 spentSee general explanation
$4,299,738 spentSee general explanation
$403,861 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $21M (+96%).
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
Simon Peter Worden
Chairman, division executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.9M → $600k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 BREAKTHROUGH 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
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 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
70% of BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $780k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BREAKTHROUGH 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREAKTHROUGH 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 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION?
- BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,630,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,850,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,630,000 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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