California · Nonprofit
DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,571,822 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,501,150). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute does
Mission
To engage in interdisciplinary ai research activities through diverse perspectives and deliberate processes rooted in the lived experiences of communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Includes Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (dair) projects to mitigate, disrupt, eliminate, and slow down the harms caused by ai technology, and to create spaces that allow us to imagine and create alternatives.the organization presented talks and workshops at academic conferences and elsewhere regarding dair's research projects and findings. To help reach a wide audience, dair institute researchers contributed editorials to major news publications. Dair organized its own public, online panel discussions featuring dair researchers and guest speakers, as well as produced podcasts, graphic designs, and creative writing to make dair's research findings more accessible to the general public. Lastly, dair partnered with other mission-aligned tax-exempt organizations to provide tailored events, reports, and other services related to dair's research and how such research impacts the partner organization's work.
$1,258,960 spentof which $7,000 as grants$2,396 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,258,960.
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
Timnit Gebru
President & executive director
Board chair
Safiya Noble
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH 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
DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
42% 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 DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
“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
DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states 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.
Against its field
DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH 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
74% 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 DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH 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 DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,571,822 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,501,150). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,571,822 in grants to DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,501,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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