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NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$15M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$22M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation does

Mission

The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation purpose is to foster the exchange of information on neural processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical and theoretical aspects. The primary focus is the presentation of a continuing series of professional meetings held over the years at various locations in the united states, canada and europe.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation's professional meetings are held in different locations. To that end the foundation makes monetary grants to individuals, who would not be able to attend and contribute due to economic hardship, to pay for their travel and lodging expenses.

    $9,805,555 spentof which $304,583 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,805,555.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 148 ($5.1M) Expenses 139 ($3.8M) Net assets 141 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 205 ($7.1M) Expenses 121 ($3.3M) Net assets 254 ($8.4M)2020 Revenue 276 ($9.5M) Expenses 208 ($5.7M) Net assets 368 ($12M)2021 Revenue 103 ($3.5M) Expenses 54 ($1.5M) Net assets 418 ($14M)2022 Revenue 38 ($1.3M) Expenses 65 ($1.8M) Net assets 385 ($13M)2023 Revenue 209 ($7.2M) Expenses 206 ($5.7M) Net assets 431 ($14M)2024 Revenue 315 ($11M) Expenses 288 ($8.0M) Net assets 517 ($17M)2025 Revenue 440 ($15M) Expenses 361 ($10.0M) Net assets 677 ($22M)
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Revenue (440)Expenses (361)Net assets (677)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $18M to $23M (+30%).

$3.3M
$5.1M
$8.4M
$12M
$14M
$13M
$14M
$18M
$23M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

34% of NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 149 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$678k
’17
$1.3M
’18
$3.7M
’19
$3.8M
’20
$2.0M
’21
−$494k
’22
$1.5M
’23
$2.9M
’24
$5.2M
’25
1.4
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed41434444443
Joined·+2+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·039000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 95 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 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 NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION?
NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION?
ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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