Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,800,750 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($4,330,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Science and Technology Futures Inc does
Mission
Science and technology futures, inc.'s mission is to identify and support scientists, engineers, and other innovators with an interest in shaping the national/global research agenda. We foster, support, promote, and conduct programs, projects, and activities designed to develop and accelerate scientific and technological research and innovation in the public interest, including, without limitation, through administering research grant programs, whitepaper competitions, scientific agenda-setting activities, and fiscal sponsorship of other mission-aligned organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Align to innovate: align to innovate is working at the intersection of biology and ai to improve life science research with programmable experiments. We use automation as a focal point to align the incentives of researchers worldwide to identify and execute large, collaborative, data-intensive projects. We accelerate these projects by creating venues for agenda setting, facilitating collaborations, and removing technical bottlenecks from the ecosystem. We aim to move the field toward a new paradigm of automation-first life science research.align to innovate made significant progress in 2025. Scientific highlights included the 2025 protein engineering tournament, which attracted over 290 international teams, and the establishment of partnerships with various research organizations to create open datasets in the biological sciences (e.g., microbial phenotyping, protein function, protein expression). The team published research on a number of topics including the impact of data scaling on protein function prediction and discussion paper addressing bottlenecks in protein expression via a proposed data collection platform.
$6,546,600 spentof which $2,360,015 as grants83% of program spendingOpen reaction database: the open reaction database (ord) is a collaborative, open data initiative to support the structuring and sharing of organic reaction data. This project provides critical support to increase the adoption and impact of ord through personnel, data curation, targeted data generation, and reducing barriers to contribution. This project increases awareness and adoption of ord, leading to increased data sharing and cross-institutional collaboration in both data generation and model-driven reaction optimization. In 2025, the project completed its new contributions interface, opened a call for high-throughput experimentation (hte) center grants, and successfully funded three proposals. It significantly expanded its reach by presenting at international conferences, training programs, and hosting an online workshop to plan for additional data generation.
$485,488 spentof which $330,000 as grants6% of program spendingProbabilisitc programming: the team strives to make advancements in ai that understands the world like people do, via probabilistic programming. To advance this mission, the probabilistic programming team makes contributions in the form of software code, planning, and strategy to various open-sourced technologies, including genjax and inferenceql which are components of opengen. Additionally, the team supports the creation of guides and documentation in support of the open-source ecosystem and development community.
$113,492 spent1% of program spendingBrain mapping: this project supports innovation in the field of brain mapping science and technology through grants to visionary research teams working at the cutting edge of connectomics and related fields.
$433,783 spentof which $433,783 as grants6% of program spendingScience and technology for a better tomorrow: this project aims at improving science and technology for america's future by: (1) promoting the importance of public r&d and how we move it forward again; (2) developing pathways to achieve bigger, better ambitions for ai, such as using ai to create better drugs faster, close educational gaps for our kids, and craft better weather forecasts; and (3) developing persuasive stories of the american innovations that have shaped and continue to shape our lives.
$183,918 spent2% of program spendingSilver linings institute: the mission of this project is to unlock funding and talent to catalyze progress in aging science. By raising the public's expectations of what is possible in aging science and marrying this new narrative with policy solutionism, the team hopes to accelerate funding for aging r&d and bolster america's national competitiveness while reducing fast-rising health costs.
$64,000 spent1% of program spendingNuclear electric propulsion: this project supports the advancement of nuclear electric propulsion (nep) technology for space travel by increasing collaboration between various stakeholders in the space (e.g., government institutions, universities, private and public research organizations).
$23,339 spentof which $23,339 as grants0% of program spendingEvolutionary cosmology research: this project focuses on advancing and testing the hypotheses related to three-stage cosmological natural selection, and blowtorch theory, which explores jet-driven structure formation via original theory papers, testable predictions, collaborative simulations, biannual workshops, and public outreach.
$15,002 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,865,622.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $10M to $2.8M (−73%).
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.
76% of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Nicholas Gjokaj
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500k → $4.3M.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES 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
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 47% — 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
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES 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 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC?
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,800,750 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($4,330,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $12,800,750 in grants to SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC?
- THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 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