California · Nonprofit
PAUSEAI US
PAUSEAI US (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being Manifold for Charity Inc ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $167k
What Pauseai US does
Mission
The purpose of PauseAI US is to encourage Americans to help bring about an indfefinite, global pause on frontier AI development - until we can be confident that the technology is safe for humanity - through education of all stakeholders, include the public and professionals in the industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: PauseAI US educates the public and elected officials about artificial intelligence technologies, its potential risks, and the possibilities for governing and regulating the risks, particularly pausing frontier development of AI capabilities ("PauseAI") and international treaty agreements to safeguard human interests and determine if there are safe development practices.
$63,181 spent33% of program spendingVolunteer/Community: PauseAI US cultivates a community of readers, listeners, social media followers, a Discord community, and a volunteer community who carry out PauseAI-related education and advocacy. Maintaining this community is a significant project, involving attention to all parts of the volunteer pipeline-- outreach, recruitment, organizing, monitoring, and providing ongoing support as volunteers implement and assist with our programming.
$63,180 spent33% of program spendingLobbying: PauseAI US engages in direct lobbying, with an employee (Felix De Simone) located in DC and taking in-person meetings with staffers and federal elected officials to ask them to support AI regulation, Pause, and international cooperation for AI Safety. We also grassroots lobby, calling for individuals to ask for meaningful AI regulation from their representatives at all levels of government, through Action Workshops where we guide them through the steps and by releasing written and video material through out Discord community and social media.
$63,180 spent33% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,541.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $118k to $236k (+100%).
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.
100% of PAUSEAI US’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Martha H Elmore
Executive Director and President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PAUSEAI US’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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
PAUSEAI US leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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 PAUSEAI US.
“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 PAUSEAI US's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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
PAUSEAI US runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PAUSEAI US
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAUSEAI US: 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 PAUSEAI US?
- PAUSEAI US (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being Manifold for Charity Inc ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PAUSEAI US have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $150,000 in grants to PAUSEAI US.
- Who is the largest funder of PAUSEAI US?
- Manifold for Charity Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAUSEAI US 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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