FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

U99

Classification

1000

Street

933 MONTGOMERY AVE 1012

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• GRANTMAKING AND PRIZES IN SUPPORT OF MITIGATING RISKS AND INCREASING BENEFITS OF TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

  Expenses $8,859,251 · Grants $7,457,618

• SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES VIA WEBSITE(S) AND MEDIA CREATION.

  Expenses $3,941,134

• RESEARCH, OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY REGARDING POLICY ON RISKS AND BENEFITS OF TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

  Expenses $3,045,701

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $21,273,381

  Expenses

  $17,399,051

  Contributions

  $21,136,620

  Grants paid

  $7,457,618

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,717,340

  Expenses

  $16,317,712

  Contributions

  $4,874,714

  Grants paid

  $9,449,231

• 2022

  Revenue

  -$85,626,657

  Expenses

  $379,048,482

  Contributions

  $21,898

  Grants paid

  $372,863,899

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $549,531,672

  Expenses

  $16,065,773

  Assets (EOY)

  $537,164,374

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $482,479

  Expenses

  $468,809

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,360,211

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,383,219

  Expenses

  $1,278,585

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,346,541

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,720,278

  Expenses

  $2,991,793

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,241,906

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,305,931

  Expenses

  $1,952,106

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,513,421

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,291,262

  Expenses

  $2,713,185

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,159,596

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,107,287

  Expenses

  $1,704,686

  Assets (EOY)

  $583,196

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $201,329

  Expenses

  $22,410

  Assets (EOY)

  $184,955

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• LIGHTCONE FOUNDATION

  $50,006,500

  2022 · GRANT TO ESTABLISH THE LIGHTCONE FOUNDATION, A RELATED ORGANIZATION TO FLI

• FUTURE OF LIFE FOUNDATION

  $25,025,000

  2022 · GRANT TO ESTABLISH AND FUND THE FUTURE OF LIFE FOUNDATION, A RELATED ORGANIZATION TO FLI

• LIGHTCONE FOUNDATION

  $6,511,558

  2023 · GRANT TO FUND LIGHTCONE FOUNDATION

• IMPROVE THE NEWS FOUNDATION

  $2,950,000

  2022 · GRANT TO SUPPORT ITNS EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE INFORMATIONAL ECOSYSTEM

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $2,470,096

  2024 · SUPPORT SPONSORED PROJECTS ENCODE, TARBELL, THE ELDERS, THE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE PROJECT, AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INTO THE CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR WAR.

• IMPROVE THE NEWS FOUNDATION

  $2,100,000

  2023 · GRANT TO SUPPORT ITNS EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE INFORMATIONAL ECOSYSTEM

• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SAFE AND ETHICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INC

  $1,500,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ADDRESSING THE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH RAPID ADVANCES IN AI

• BIOCOMPLEXITY SURVIVAL ALLIANCE

  $1,113,685

  2022 · SUPPORT TO LAUNCH THE WISE ANCESTORS PLATFORM, SUPPORTING THE CONSERVATION OF EARTH'S BIODIVERSITY

• FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS

  $750,000

  2024 · TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON GLOBAL RISK.

• CAF AMERICA

  $619,861

  2024 · SUPPORT FOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INTO THE CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR WAR.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• LIGHTCONE FOUNDATION

  $4,250,000

  2023 · CHARITABLE WORK IN SUPPORT OF THE FUTURE OF LIFE FOUNDATION'S MISSION

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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