Bradley Roberts serves as Neuromatch’s CEO and also acts in the capacity of the organisation’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Responsibilities include:
Overall financial accountability and budget ownership
Approval of spending within authorised limits
Oversight of financial reporting, cashflow, and runway
Regular financial updates to the Board of Directors and Community
Program Administrator — Laura Poli
Laura Poli manages key operational finance processes, including:
Treasurer (Board of Directors) — Recruitment in progress
Neuromatch is currently recruiting for a Treasurer role on the Board of Directors. The Treasurer will:
Provide Board of Directors-level financial oversight
Serve as Chair of the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee
Support review of financial reporting, risk, and controls
External Bookkeeping Support — Jitasa
Neuromatch uses external bookkeeping services from Jitasa, a firm that works exclusively with nonprofit organisations. Jitasa provides ongoing bookkeeping support and produces Neuromatch’s monthly financial statements. They also manage Neuromatch’s annual IRS Form 990 filing and support charitable registration filings, where required. Jitasa works closely with Neuromatch’s internal finance team (CEO/CFO, Program Administrator, and Treasurer once appointed) through fortnightly meetings to ensure:
Accounts receivable (incoming funds) are tracked accurately
Accounts payable (outgoing payments) are processed smoothly
Bookkeeping and reporting reflect Neuromatch’s financial position accurately
Jitasa also supports Neuromatch’s annual financial audit process, working in close coordination with Bradley Roberts and Laura Poli to provide documentation, reporting, and audit-ready financial records.
Spending approvals and authorised limits
Neuromatch follows formal approval thresholds for expenditures. These authorised limits are set out in the organisation’s corporate bylaws.
Expenses under $10,000 USD: approval required from the CEO/CFO
Expenses of $10,000 USD or more: approval required from the President and/or Board of Directors
All spending should be:
Within budget, and
Approved before purchase or commitment
Budgeting and financial planning
Neuromatch maintains an annual operating budget and performs monthly budget-to-actuals review to:
Improve the accuracy and predictiveness of future budgets
Identify deviations and emerging risks early
Adjust financial planning based on real-world performance
Neuromatch also provides a monthly financial update as part of the CEO & Core Team Update, summarising:
Current financial position
Key changes since the prior month
Estimated organisational runway
Runway expectations
Neuromatch seeks to maintain a consistent 24-month financial runway.
Where required, Neuromatch may allow runway to decrease to as low as 6 months, without immediate changes to personnel or assets, while financial strategy and sustainability options are evaluated.
Annual IRS Form 990 filing
Neuromatch completes an annual IRS Form 990 filing, which is a required nonprofit tax return and a key tool for transparency and accountability. It provides a public record of Neuromatch’s:
Financial position and activities
Governance and compliance practices
Revenue sources and major expenditures
Neuromatch keeps public versions of its Form 990 available on its website after filing. Records from 2020–2024 can be found below:
Neuromatch conducts an annual independent financial audit to strengthen financial governance, validate financial reporting, and provide assurance to stakeholders including funders, partners, and the Board of Directors.
Neuromatch completed its first annual audit for FY2024 financials as the organisation matures and scales. This will continue annually going forward, and the most recent audit report can be found below.
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Active grants and contracts
Neuromatch maintains a list of active and recently completed grants and contracts for transparency and operational planning.
See below for a list of active and recently completed grants and contracts.
Active Grants & Contracts
Funder
Duration
Amount
Description
Protocol Labs
1 Year
12/2025 – 12/2026
$100,000 total
General support for our Computational Neuroscience and NeuroAI courses and Impact Scholars Program
Longview Philanthropy – AI Sentience Scholars Program Pilot
1 Year
$310,000 total
Pilot AI Sentience Scholars Program
NIH BRAIN Initiative – R25 Short Courses (Research Education)
5 Years
09/2025 – 07/2030
$39,495 per year $197,475 total
Integrate NIH BRAIN data repositories directly into our Computational Neuroscience Course
Simons Foundation – Neuroscience Courses & Conferences
3 Years
09/2024 – 08/2027
$50,000 per year
$150,000 total
General support for our Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning and NeuroAI courses
ARNI (Columbia University) – NSF Subcontract
5 Years
11/2023 – 11/2028
$195,000 per year
$975,000 total
Support for development and annual delivery of the NeuroAI course, and ongoing collaboration
Gatsby Charitable Foundation
4 Years
03/2022 – 03/2026
$50,000 per year
$200,000 total
General support for our Computational Neuroscience Course and Impact Scholars Program
CIFAR – Catalyst Grant
2 Years
03/2024 – 02/2026
$29,000 total
General support for developing and sustaining NeuroAI Mysteries Day for NeuroAI course
HHMI – Unrestricted Academic Gift
1 Year
11/2025 – 10/2026
$10,000 total
General support for our Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning and NeuroAI courses
Meta – Unrestricted Academic Gift
1 Year01/2025 – 01/2026
$20,000 total
General support for our Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning and NeuroAI courses
Harvard NIH Subaward – U01 Award (PI: Bence Ölveczky)
3 Years
09/2024 – 06/2027
$43,272 per year
$129,816 total
Project Title: Understanding
sensorimotor control through realistic neuro-biomechanical simulation. Neuromatch to establish a technical workforce to support project pulling Data Engineers via course alumni and wider community.
NSF Subaward (Iowa State) – Soft-Money PI Benjamin Redelings
2 Years
06/2024 – 05/2026
$123,750 total
NSF POSE Phase I Award to support salary for Soft-Money PI Benjamin Redelings
NSF Award – Soft-Money PI Hilmar Lapp
3 Years
10/2025 – 08/2028
$58,224 total
NSF FAIROS Award to support salary for Soft-Money PI Hilmar Lapp
NSF Subaward (Ohio State) – Soft-Money PI Hilmar Lapp
1 Year
01/2026 – 09/2026
$189,470 total
NSF HDR Imageomics Award to support salary for Soft-Money PI Hilmar Lapp
Recently Completed Grants & Contracts
Funder
Duration
Amount
Description
Wellcome – MEXA (Contract 2: Accelerator)
03/2025 – 12/2025
$1,607,481 total
MEXA Generative AI x Mental Health Research Accelerator, supporting the formation of 40 new teams that will have the requisite knowledge, skills, and interests to drive forward innovative new research in the nascent field of Mental Health and Generative AI.
Wellcome – MEXA (Contract 1: Field Building)
10/2024 – 03/2025
$344,600 total
MEXA Generative AI x Mental Health Research Field Building Work
Wellcome –Mindmatching Services (Mental Health)
03/2025 – 07/2025
$12,000 total
Mindmatching for Wellcome’s Longitudinal Datasets for Mental Health funding award
Wellcome – Mindmatching Services (Genomics)
09/2025 – 12/2025
$12,000 total
Mindmatching for Wellcome’s Genomics in Context funding award
NASA
2 Years
06/2023 –
06/2025
$248,961 total
An Open, Community Supported, Accessible Summer School for Climate Science – Climatematch Academy
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
1 Year
10/2024 – 09/2025
$79,701
To develop AI matching algorithms to support scientific collaboration
Dana Foundation & Kavli Foundation – Civic Science Fellowship
2 Years
12/2023 – 11/2025
$200,000 total
Funding to host an Open Science Civic Science Fellow (Leanna Kalinowski)