California · Nonprofit
FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $31
- Net assets
- $22k
What Fundamental Research Laboratory does
Mission
Research in sciences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supported education and research in sciences such as medical, biological, economical, mathematical, computer and engineering sciences, participated in some workshops, seminars, meetings, etc., investigated optimization techniques for various problems.
$2,500 spent25% of program spendingWorked on a variety of database systems such as main memory databases, OLTP and OLAP, investigated the implemetation, security, performance and other issues, wrote and tested database queries, procedures, functions, triggers, etc.
$2,500 spent25% of program spendingContinued the research on software technologies, methodologies, systems and tools for developing Windows and web applications, compared pros and cons among them, explored AI tools, wrote and tested programs for various applications.
$2,500 spent25% of program spendingResearched the economy and the market, investigated how to use the computer to quickly collect, analyze and process the data on the internet, with or without APIs, to achieve the best result.
$2,400 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,900.
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.
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.
98% of FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY’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
100% of FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 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
FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY has grown faster than half of the 479 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
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.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY?
- FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31 in grants to FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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