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UNITARY FUND

UNITARY FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,000 to it, the largest being IN-Q-TEL INC ($375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$670k
Net assets
$629k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Unitary Fund does

Mission

To create a quantum technology ecosystem that benefits the most people. We believe that expanding the pool of people working on quantum technologies is a way to ensure that the benefits of these tools are widely, swiftly, and equitably distributed.today, we primarily use two major programs to pursue this mission. Through unitary labs we work on in-house projects that help the ecosystem as a whole. Through our microgrant program, we fund an inclusive community of explorers across the world to work on quantum technologies.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Unitary Fund awarded microgrants to individuals & organizations consisting of approximately 20 teams/individuals per year. The grant applications are reviewed by an outside advisory board consisting of 15 volunteers.

    $229,712 spentof which $90,103 as grants
    19% of program spending
  2. Unitary Fund developed mitiq, an open source quantum toolkit to mitigate errors on current noisy quantum computers. Mitiq is the first toolkit of its kind and has been cited numerous times in academic research papers.

    $395,599 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Unitary Fund developed metriq, a free community platform to benchmark current quantum computers, and to share the latest research achievements in the field.

    $273,010 spent
    23% of program spending
  4. Other program services included q4bio, a new project started in 2023, as well as community programs, which comprise of smaller, mission aligned programs occuring throughout the year.

    $291,497 spent
    24% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,189,818.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($96k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2020 Revenue 542 ($519k) Expenses 789 ($427k) Net assets 320 ($133k)2021 Revenue 1049 ($1.0M) Expenses 1336 ($723k) Net assets 997 ($415k)2022 Revenue 872 ($835k) Expenses 1670 ($904k) Net assets 832 ($347k)2023 Revenue 1562 ($1.5M) Expenses 2557 ($1.4M) Net assets 1101 ($459k)2024 Revenue 2087 ($2.0M) Expenses 3380 ($1.8M) Net assets 1510 ($629k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (2087)Expenses (3380)Net assets (1510)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 2020 to 2021, from $377k to $609k (+61%).

$271k
$377k
$609k
$536k
$666k
$786k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 57% · 2021 30% · 2022 33% · 2023 18% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of UNITARY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’19
$92k
’20
$282k
’21
−$68k
’22
$112k
’23
$170k
’24
1.6
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed14466
Joined··+0+2+0
No longer listed··000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $75k → $383k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 UNITARY FUND’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

UNITARY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63% 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 UNITARY FUND.

56%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 65% — 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

UNITARY FUND draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

CA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNITARY FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)84% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding UNITARY FUND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.

Federal$4.3M
grants $4.3Mcontracts $0
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Energy$2.6M
  • National Science Foundation$1.8M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like UNITARY FUND

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

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 UNITARY FUND: 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 UNITARY FUND?
UNITARY FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,000 to it, the largest being IN-Q-TEL INC ($375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITARY FUND have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $670,000 in grants to UNITARY FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITARY FUND?
IN-Q-TEL INC is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITARY FUND 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.

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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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