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Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research
Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150,550 to it, the largest being INTERNET SOCIETY FOUNDATION ($150,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research does
Mission
To advance public understanding of the economic and societal consequences of digital and data-centric technologies, including the Internet, through rigorous empirical research and the provision of new tools which aid that research. To support rigorous economic research that aims to improve decision making by government, industry, and the scientific community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Foundation released the following in 2024: An open-source browser extension framework, Webmunk. A first draft of the paper, "Data Sharing and Website Competition: The Role of Dark Patterns, and presented it at several venues including MIT and the Advances in Field Experiments conference. In 2023, the Fradkin Foundation was incorporated and set up the infrastructure to receive and administer funds. It received a first tranche of funding from the Internet Society Foundation in pursuit of a grant to study the economic consequences of dark patterns on the internet. Dark patterns are digital interfaces that manipulate or coerce users into actions that they may not take otherwise.The foundation will seek to answer the following questions:- How effective are companies user interface designs in manipulating consumers data sharing decisions?- How do dark patterns change the economic outcomes that consumers face via changing their data sharing decisions? In particular, how do changes in data sharing affect the ads that consumers see, the types of websites they browse, and their consumption patterns?Does the removal of dark patterns affect different companies differently? If so, what can…
$57,252 spentof which $5,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,252.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $71k to $18k (−74%).
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.
100% of Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Andrey Fradkin
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $75k.
From the IRS filings of Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research’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.
Where its funders are
Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research's revenue fell 93% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 164 social science nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research: 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 Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research?
- Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150,550 to it, the largest being INTERNET SOCIETY FOUNDATION ($150,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $150,550 in grants to Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research?
- INTERNET SOCIETY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 1 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