California · Nonprofit
FUTURE HOUSE INC
FUTURE HOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,829,186 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($19,200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Future House Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to build an ai scientist, or ai systems, that can automate scientific research and accelerate the pace of discovery, so humanity can find cures for disease, solutions for climate change, and other species-accelerating technologies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In november 2023, sam rodriques and andrew white co-founded futurehouse with the mission of automating scientific discovery to accelerate the pace of innovation within biology and other complex sciences.the challengescientific progress depends on synthesizing existing knowledge and experimental results, but the exponential growth of scientific literature has created a critical bottleneck. While large language models (llms) show promise for automating knowledge synthesis at scale, they face significant limitations including hallucinations, lack of access to current data, and unreliable citation practices.our solutions and progressfuturehouse has developed breakthrough ai-driven tools and systems:paperqa/paperqa2 - our foundational llm platform for reliable scientific information retrieval and synthesis, achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks including pubmedqa and litqa (our internal retrieval-focused evaluation that tests the ability to retrieve full-text pdfs across scientific literature).wikicrow - an automated system built on paperqa that creates wikipedia-style articles for technical scientific topics. Wikicrow has generated draft articles for over 15,600 human…
$7,171,512 spent$1,050,698 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,171,512.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $22M to $18M (−15%).
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.
66% of FUTURE HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Samuel Rodriques
CEO & director
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 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FUTURE HOUSE 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
FUTURE HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of FUTURE HOUSE INC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $683k 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
FUTURE HOUSE INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 FUTURE HOUSE 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUTURE HOUSE 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 FUTURE HOUSE INC?
- FUTURE HOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,829,186 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($19,200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUTURE HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $22,829,186 in grants to FUTURE HOUSE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTURE HOUSE INC?
- THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTURE HOUSE 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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