Oklahoma · Nonprofit
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,078 to it, the largest being INFOSYS FOUNDATION USA ($59,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics is better cushioned than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Norman Inclocal
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio match
- Scratch Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 20% · 2021 37% · 2022 21% · 2023 25% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of KISS Institute for Practical Robotics’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $57k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 KISS Institute for Practical Robotics’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
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 KISS Institute for Practical Robotics.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 78% · 2021 82% · 2022 61% · 2023 86% — diversifying over time.
“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
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Norman InclocalOK · funds 29 organizations near you
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scratch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dassault Systemes US Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ingenuityne Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Codeorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anya & Aarav Bhojwani Foundation Inportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Sciencportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Region Chapter of Simportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glenn W Bailey Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McChord Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mathenaeum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding KISS Institute for Practical Robotics receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record — $3.3M federal, $6k state.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$3.3M
- Admin Mgmt-Gen.Mgmt Consulting$5k
- Educational Supplies$500
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KISS Institute for Practical Robotics
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 KISS Institute for Practical Robotics: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KISS Institute for Practical Robotics?
- KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,078 to it, the largest being INFOSYS FOUNDATION USA ($59,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KISS Institute for Practical Robotics have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $120,078 in grants to KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KISS Institute for Practical Robotics?
- INFOSYS FOUNDATION USA is the largest funder on record, with $59,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KISS Institute for Practical Robotics find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing