Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MIND FIRST FOUNDATION
MIND FIRST FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,000 to it, the largest being EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Mind First Foundation does
Mission
Description of organization: to communicate scientific information and conduct community outreach activities to increase public awareness of critically important scientific issues related to the mind, and to research means for expanding the scope of rational and scientific responses to emerging challenges and civilizational threats, including emerging pathogens and pandemic risks. Responses to emerging challenges and civilizational threats, including emerging pathogens, pandemic risks, biosecurity, artificial intellignece (ai), and ai safety.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
R&d funding granted for in-house r&d of open source sars-cov2 vaccine. Research of ai model architectures and methods for rapid pandemic responses, including ai models for designing highly effective and safe vaccines and for selecting immediate-response countermeasures that are appropriate for a range of bioweapon threats.
$404,924 spent$635 earned by the program100% of program spendingScientific conference sponsorship - no funds were granted
Mind First Foundation held two public events on the risks of ai. Both events were open to the public and held at microsoft new england research & development center. The event on june 29 focused on the potential risks and benefits of ai superintelligence, and a second event on november 22 focused on the work of ai safety pioneer steve omohundro. Speakers and panelists addressed issues of immediate risks (e.g. Bioweapons), as well as longer-term extreme risks from ai, and presented and discussed ideas on how to mitigate these risks. Radvac and mff chief scientist preston estep, phd, published an article in the leading journal ai & society examining unnatural attributes of ai, and assessing the contributions of these attributes to ai-related risks (estep, preston w. "multiple unnatural attributes of ai undermine common anthropomorphically biased takeover speculations." ai & society (2024): 1-16.)
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $404,924.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $465k to $3.0M (+544%).
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.
1% of MIND FIRST FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 MIND FIRST FOUNDATION’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
MIND FIRST FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
100% 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 MIND FIRST FOUNDATION.
“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
MIND FIRST FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k 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
MIND FIRST FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MIND FIRST FOUNDATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 MIND FIRST FOUNDATION: 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 MIND FIRST FOUNDATION?
- MIND FIRST FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,000 to it, the largest being EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIND FIRST FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $304,000 in grants to MIND FIRST FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MIND FIRST FOUNDATION?
- EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIND FIRST FOUNDATION 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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