Elon Musk

The four-line truth

Lines are separate lifecycle measures and are never summed: committed = donor-published award/approved-commitment flows or signed recipient-confirmed commitments within the displayed source coverage period, including exact named commitments, plus reviewed current forward-portfolio aggregates that are never accumulated across source snapshots; awaiting = latest-FY statutory 'approved for future payment' or audited future-support-obligation balance; deployed = disclosed paid amounts, split into statutory, recipient-confirmed, and donor-reported evidence; in vehicles = transfers to controlled vehicles, DAFs, recipient foundations, or unresolved associated vehicles pending onward evidence (withheld-amount gifts counted separately). Absence of events is absence of loaded evidence, not zero giving.

Top recipients

1. X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC4 grants · FY2021–FY2024 ·statutory$117.5M
2. ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL1 grant · FY2021 ·statutory$55.0M
3. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN2 grants · FY2021–FY2024 ·statutory$13.3M
4. KHAN ACADEMY3 grants · FY2020–FY2023 ·statutory$12.5M
5. BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE HEALTHCARE1 grant · FY2024 ·statutory$7.2M
6. HACK FOUNDATION3 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$7.0M
7. BROWNSVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT2 grants · FY2021–FY2023 ·statutory$6.7M
8. WINDWARD SCHOOL3 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$5.1M

Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.

Transparency

• Publishes an open grants databaseno donor-published database loaded0/40
• Capital traceable to a named recipient100% of $337,075,02430/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detail100% of $337,075,024 filed15/15
• Most recent evidenceFY202415/15

US private foundations must name material grantees on Form 990-PF, so recipient-level detail here is compelled, not volunteered.

Voluntary points reward disclosure the donor chose — publishing an open grants database, and naming recipients. Compelled points reflect how completely and how currently their statutory filings land. The split exists because disclosure regimes differ by jurisdiction: a high compelled score is law-abiding, not generous, and a low one may reflect a rule the donor did not write.

Vehicles · 17 regulator- or Wikidata-linked

• Musk FoundationEIN confirmed · IRS 990-PFIRS-TEOS 852133087 · president and director in the FY2024 Form 990-PF
• SpaceXEIN unresolved in loaded subset
• PayPalno EIN claim
• Hyperloop Oneno EIN claim
• OpenAIEIN confirmed · IRS BMFEIN 810861541 · SAN FRANCISCO, CA · assets $14.7M
• Zip2no EIN claim
• The Boring Companyno EIN claim
• Neuralinkno EIN claim
• X.comno EIN claim
• Texas Institute of Technology & Scienceno EIN claim
• Thudno EIN claim
• X Corp.no EIN claim
• X Holdings Corpno EIN claim
• SpaceXAIno EIN claim
• Astra Nova Schoolno EIN claim
• America PACno EIN claim
• America Partyno EIN claim

Provenance