California · Nonprofit
FAR AI INC
FAR AI INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,997,318 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($14,570,253). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Far Ai Inc does
Mission
Founded in 2022, far.ai, inc. Is a california non-profit dedicated to making advanced ai safe and beneficial for everyone. Far.ai conducts and supports technical ai research, continued on sch o
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Research programs far.ai conducts technical research to address fundamental artificial intelligence ai safety challenges. In 2024 we published 12 research papers with acceptances at leading venues such as the international conference on learning representations iclr, the international conference on machine learning icml, and the neural information processing systems conference neurips. We partnered with government-led ai security initiatives and conducted red-teaming engagements on frontier ai systems. We also supported external researchers through collaborations, mentorships, and/or operational support.
$2,956,925 spent39% of program spendingResearch hub and coworking space far.ai operated a collaborative research hub in berkeley, providing a dedicated coworking space and in person programs for researchers and organizations working on core ai security, safety and governance challenges. Hosting 40 to 50 members, the hub facilitated knowledge exchange through weekly seminars where researchers and founders presented their work to the community and ran a team-in-residence program designed to support new organizations in this field.
$1,142,509 spent15% of program spendingEvents and workshops far.ai hosted and facilitated technical workshops, multi-day convenings, and coordination events in 2024. These included large-scale alignment workshops in the bay area and europe, as well as smaller specialized sessions with researchers, practitioners, industry partners, and policymakers. These events supported collaboration on key technical and governance challenges in current and emerging ai systems.
$1,957,949 spent26% of program spendingProgram service expenses 1,460,000, grants and allocations 1,460,000, revenue 0 research grantmaking far.ai administered a technical ai research grantmaking program to support research projects. In 2024, we facilitated grants totaling 1.46 million to subgrantees.
$1,460,000 spentof which $1,460,000 as grants19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,517,383.
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 $7.7M to $23M (+198%).
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.
96% of FAR AI INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Adam Gleave
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $6.5M.
9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 FAR AI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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
FAR AI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 FAR AI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 43% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
92% of FAR AI INC'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 $2.5M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FAR AI INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 149 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like FAR AI INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 FAR AI 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 FAR AI INC?
- FAR AI INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,997,318 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($14,570,253). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAR AI INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $31,997,318 in grants to FAR AI INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAR AI INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $14,570,253 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAR AI INC 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.
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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 2022–2024), and the filings of 17 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