California · Nonprofit
THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC
THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,990,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $833k
What Thoughtful Tech Project Inc does
Mission
To ensure that technology has a positive impact on society, by developing the democratic institutions needed for the age of ai.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Building democratic capabilitiesthe ai & democracy foundation (aidf) developed and disseminated non-partisan resources to strengthen democratic infrastructure, which can be used for ai governance and beyond. This included: convening top deliberative democracy practitioner organizations for deep-dive process exploration and improvement workshops; documenting deliberative assembly workflows and establishing a functions-based research approach to deliberative democracy; developing cost models for tracking and comparing resource utilization across deliberative processes; developing a research agenda for adapting machine learning tools to support those processes; and instigating, co-organizing, and supporting an interoperable deliberative tools initiative. This work was presented and discussed at convenings internationally. These activities directly advanced the organization's work to strengthen democratic governance of artificial intelligence and technology more generally by building foundational infrastructure and practitioner capacity.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC’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
THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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 THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT 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
50% of THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC'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. Of the $990k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT 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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT 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 THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC?
- THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,990,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,990,000 in grants to THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOUGHTFUL TECH PROJECT 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.
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 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