California · Nonprofit
MATS RESEARCH INC
MATS RESEARCH INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,441,640 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($4,558,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Mats Research Inc does
Mission
Mats aims to find and train talented individuals for what we see as the world's most urgent and talent-constrained problem: reducing risks from unaligned artificial intelligence (ai).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The ml alignment & theory scholars (mats) program: an independent research and educational seminar program .the mats program is an independent research and educational seminar program that connects talented scholars with top mentors in the fields of ai alignment, governance, and security. The main goal of mats is to help scholars develop as researchers. Scholars conduct mentored research projects and attend educational seminars addressing different aspects of the research field.
$1,191,653 spent54% of program spendingGeneral programs and events held for alumni.
$1,024,181 spent46% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,215,834.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MATS RESEARCH 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
MATS RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 MATS RESEARCH INC.
“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
85% of MATS RESEARCH INC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MATS RESEARCH INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 MATS RESEARCH 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 MATS RESEARCH 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 MATS RESEARCH INC?
- MATS RESEARCH INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,441,640 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($4,558,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MATS RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $12,441,640 in grants to MATS RESEARCH INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATS RESEARCH INC?
- GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,558,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATS RESEARCH 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing