Funding search · robotics and AI · Pennsylvania
Who funds robotics and AI work in Pennsylvania
15 funders have a record of paying for robotics and AI work by Pennsylvania recipients: 76 grants totaling $30.8M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Richard King Mellon Foundation ($19.6M), For Inspiration and Recognition of ($387,891) and Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing ($5.6M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Pennsylvania recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $300,000 to ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — to provide rapid training opportunities to attract and upskill individuals for careers in advanced manufacturing and robotics
For Inspiration and Recognition ofManchester, NHCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $387,891 · through 2024Largest: $153,721 to Pennsylvania FIRST Robotics — program support
Advanced Robotics for ManufacturingPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $5.6M · through 2024Largest: $2.2M to TITAN ROBOTICS INC — research subawards
Largest: $749,759 to THE GOG FOUNDATION — a randomized controlled trial of robotic versus open radical hysterectomy for cervical
Largest: $20,000 to PHILADELPHIA ROBOTICS COALITION INC — afterschool robotics: pathways to stem college & career for underserved philadelphia youth
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $373,967 · through 2024Largest: $194,292 to ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — education/research
Largest: $1.0M to ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — greater pittsburgh robotics & ai cluster fund
Largest: $10,000 to Carnegie Mellon University — girls of steel robotics program
Largest: $7,500 to EASTERN PA ROBOTICS ALLIANCE — to further the exempt purpose of the organization
Largest: $10,000 to PHILADELPHIA ROBOTICS COALITION — general operating
Largest: $96,432 to LIGUORI ACADEMY — basketball team funding , robotics team funding, sponsoring events, and funding technology center
Largest: $100,000 to THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — robotics out of school time programming for the school district of philadelphia
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