OrganizationsGrantor-reported paid grant; recipient EIN corroborated separately
Musk Foundation reports $4,000,000 to FLI (2021)
Period or event: Tax year 2021; grantor filing submitted 2022-11-15 · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record r3-fli-grant-musk-2021
Musk Foundation reports a $4,000,000 grant paid during the year to Future of Life Institute. The grant row names FLI but does not provide its EIN; FLI's own legal identification supplies the separate corroboration. No later policy earmark is established.
What the source records
Reporting grantor
Musk Foundation
Grantor EIN
85-2133087
Named recipient
FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE
Recipient EIN
47-1052538FLI separately self-identifies with this EIN. The 990-PF grant row supplies the exact organization name but no recipient EIN; attribution has lower identifier confidence than the Schedule I matches.
Reported paid grant
$4,000,000Part XIV line 3a: paid during the year; not the approved-for-future-payment section.
Tax reporting year
2021Record date is the period-end marker, not an exact payment date.
Reported purpose
SUPPORT RESEARCH AND INITIATIVES FOR SAFEGUARDING LIFE AND DEVELOPING OPTIMISTIC VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
Recipient identification basis
Exact organization name in grantor row plus separate first-party FLI EIN statement
Recipient confirmation of exact payment
Not acquired
Public institutional leadership context
The grantor return identifies Elon Musk as president and director; Tesla's 2021 annual-report certification identifies him as CEO.Professional-role context only. The reported grantor is Musk Foundation, not Tesla or SpaceX.
Scope & limitations
The source is the grantor's reported grant; no invoice, bank transfer, executed agreement or recipient-side confirmation of this exact payment was acquired.
The reported purpose does not establish an earmark for the 2026 PauseAI recommendation or Sanders–Casar proposal. Do not trace these historical funds to either activity without a specific agreement or accounting record.
This is an institutional grant to FLI, not a Sanders campaign receipt, personal payment or evidence that the grantor backed Sanders.
No full incoming-funder universe or complete amendment/refund history was searched. This finite set is not FLI's total funding.
The recipient EIN is absent from this 990-PF row. Do not present this attribution as equivalent to an explicit grant-row EIN match. Exact name and separate recipient self-identification are the corroboration basis.
Foundation philanthropy is not proof that Tesla, SpaceX or another technology company made this grant.
FLI publicly acknowledges historical Musk seed support but does not identify this exact 2021 foundation payment in the reviewed narrative.
FLI currently states it does not accept Big Tech/AGI-company donations and describes its own donor-independence policy with a founding-director exception; those are attributed recipient statements, not independently adjudicated claims.
IRS filing via ProPublica · Original tax-filing render · Document date 2022-11-15 · Checked 2026-09-12
Form 990-PF Part XIV line 3a, Paid during the year, recipient FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE.
Original response hashed in memory; only institution-level grant row retained. No donor identities or location details included. Reported payment is not independent bank confirmation.