{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"r3-fli-grant-svcf-2019","category":"organizations","title":"Silicon Valley Community Foundation reports $230,000 to FLI (2019)","date":"2019-12-31","period":"Tax year 2019; grantor filing submitted 2020-11-14","status":"Grantor-reported paid grant; recipient EIN explicit","summary":"Silicon Valley Community Foundation reports a $230,000 cash grant to Future of Life Institute. The grant row explicitly identifies recipient EIN 47-1052538. 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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.","SVCF is the reporting charity. Neither its name nor this row identifies the ultimate donor or a technology-company source. FLI separately describes a historical SVCF donor-advised grantmaking arrangement, but this row does not identify a particular donor-advised account or prove a return of FLI's own funds."],"sourceIds":["src-r3-fli-svcf-2019","src-ai-advocacy-fli-identity","src-r3-fli-rfp"],"tags":["institutional grants","ai-advocacy","Future of Life Institute","Silicon Valley Community Foundation","2019"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-r3-fli-svcf-2019","title":"Svcf 2019: selected grant to Future of Life Institute","publisher":"IRS filing via ProPublica","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202003199349301770/IRS990ScheduleI","documentDate":"2020-11-14","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"Original tax-filing render","locator":"Schedule I Part II row 651, cash grant column (d), purpose column (h), recipient EIN column (b).","sha256":"ec74259e291c91d4f8c11d60b93d0ef0606ea8811b631045e799fbb89cdec7e7","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original response hashed in memory; only institution-level grant row retained. 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