Texas · Nonprofit
Edge Institute Inc
Edge Institute Inc (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,401 to it, the largest being Mercatus Center Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $803k
What Edge Institute Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to convene people working at the frontiers of technology, science, and society in popup villages across the globe. It will serve as a 'society incubator' - a lab for experimentation, collaboration, and innovation, fostering the development of new ideas, technologies, cultural practices, and organizations to accelerate human flourishing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pop Up Villages. In 2024, the organization operated three major popup villages across three continents that served over 9,000 participants, including Edge Esmeralda in California, Edge City Lanna in Thailand, and helped incubate Crecimiento in Argentina. These popup villages created immersive 1- to 2- month living and working environments focused on accelerating innovation and human flourishing by convening people working at the frontiers of technology, science, and society. The organization provided comprehensive infrastructure including coworking spaces, accommodation coordination, healthy meals, wellness activities, and educational programming that facilitated collaborations between technologists, scientists, researchers, and builders. Through these popup village programs, the organization served as a society incubator and lab for experimentation, collaboration, and innovation, fostering the development of new ideas, technologies, cultural practices, and organizations.
$933,223 spent$459,542 earned by the program100% of program spendingInnovation & Research Support. In 2024, the organization supported over 150 builders and scholars to participate in popup village programs, providing grants and resources for experimental projects exploring solutions for societal challenges. The organization supported the development of new technologies and research projects across fields like cryptography, biotech, AI safety, and governance through specialized residencies and workshops for researchers and builders. By creating testing environments for new tools and systems related to community organization, the organization served as a lab for experimentation and innovation, fostering the development of new ideas, technologies, and organizations to accelerate human flourishing at the frontiers of technology, science, and society.
Community Development Programs. In 2024, the organization built partnerships with local governments and institutions in host locations, integrating popup villages with local communities through shared events and economic activity. The organization developed open source tools and resources for community organizing and created frameworks for healthy, multi-generational community living. By documenting and sharing learnings through research papers and case studies, the organization fostered collaboration and innovation while serving as a society incubator that advances new cultural practices and organizational models to accelerate human flourishing at the frontiers of technology, science, and society.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $933,223.
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
Janine Leger
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Edge 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
Edge Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Edge Institute Inc.
“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
Edge Institute Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
Edge Institute Inc 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 Edge 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 Texas
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
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 Edge 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 Edge Institute Inc?
- Edge Institute Inc (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,401 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 Edge Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $161,401 in grants to Edge Institute Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Edge Institute Inc?
- 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 Edge Institute Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 6 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