Georgia · Nonprofit
FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE
FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,789,241 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,326,727). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Foundational Questions Institute does
Programs
Contest prizes awarded through fqxi's essay contest program and the community site have allowed the institute to provide the public with a deeper understanding of our world view. Winning entries from fqxi's contest can be found online, fqxi.org/community.essay
$36,045 spentScientific consultants and subcontractors - fqxi's team of consultants help run the science programming for the organization and provides editorial and technical oversight for the organization's website, in particular the community site, fqxi.org/community
$623,282 spentFqxi's grant program helps to redress incrementalism in research programming by establishing or expanding new "islands" of understanding via flexible funding of high-risk, high reward resaech in these areas. These grant and contest programs are able to expand the purview of scientific inquiry to include scientific disciplines fundamental to a deep understanding of reality, but which are currently largely unsupported by conventional grant sources.
$97,232 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $12M to $1.3M (−89%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $753k → $2.4M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS 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
FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 99% — 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
61% of FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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
FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE?
- FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,789,241 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,326,727). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,789,241 in grants to FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,326,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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