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WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION

WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,660,341 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($9,600,000). 5 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
$8.3M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$30M
Net assets
$4.7M
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence Foundation does

Program

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    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($236k)2019 Revenue 151 ($4.3M) Expenses 130 ($3.6M) Net assets 393 ($928k)2020 Revenue 254 ($7.2M) Expenses 256 ($7.0M) Net assets 418 ($988k)2021 Revenue 270 ($7.6M) Expenses 198 ($5.4M) Net assets 1337 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 246 ($6.9M) Expenses 249 ($6.8M) Net assets 1388 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 430 ($12M) Expenses 335 ($9.1M) Net assets 2642 ($6.2M)2024 Revenue 294 ($8.3M) Expenses 359 ($9.8M) Net assets 1994 ($4.7M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (294)Expenses (359)Net assets (1994)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 2022 to 2023, from $3.4M to $8.2M (+142%).

$302k
$1.2M
$1.1M
$3.3M
$3.4M
$8.2M
$7.5M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed3333224
Joined·+0+0+0···
No longer listed·000···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $7.4M.

Funder
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total
funders
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3
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3
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1

2 of 5 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 WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 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.

How concentrated its funding is

WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION.

32%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 55% · 2021 53% · 2022 45% · 2023 53% — 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

50% of WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION'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 $15M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

WA
PA
CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

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

Government funding WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.2M on record.

Federal$15.2M
grants $15.2Mcontracts $0
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22
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Top agencies
  • Agency for International Development$15.2M

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 WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION?
WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,660,341 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($9,600,000). 5 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 WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $29,660,341 in grants to WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION?
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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