Nonprofit · EIN 88-1751310
CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC
Tax-exempt · SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $10,235,085 | $7,163,607 | $3,071,478 | $12,638,754 | $1,029,036 | $11,609,718 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $16,089,191 | $8,134,449 | $7,954,742 | $13,989,499 | $5,451,259 | $8,538,240 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $9,596,669
- Program service revenue
- $256,598
- Investment income
- $333,081
- Net gain from sales of assets
- -$51,175
- Other revenue
- $48,737
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $671,182
- Other salaries and wages
- $1,825,944
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $2,830,523
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $106,916
- Accounting fees
- $39,769
- Occupancy
- $212,859
- Travel
- $55,157
- Depreciation
- $2,615
- Program services (functional)
- $6,288,786
- Management and general (functional)
- $729,132
- Fundraising (functional)
- $145,689
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $13,989,499
- Total assets, end of year
- $12,638,754
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,029,036
- Net assets, end of year
- $11,609,718
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $12,306
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $10,933,932
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $675,786
- Gross receipts
- $10,769,815
- Employees
- 25
- Volunteers
- 2
- Year formed
- 2022
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel James Hendrycks | Executive Dir. Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $314,534 | $6,749 |
| Nicholas Beckstead | Policy Lead | 40 | $198,071 | $14,458 |
| Steven Basart | Research engineer | 40 | $171,272 | $20,849 |
| Bri Treece | COO Officer | 40 | $169,980 | $12,095 |
| Oliver Zhang Managing Director | Director Officer | 40 | $155,573 | $12,251 |
| William Hodgkins | Project Manager | 40 | $150,379 | $13,134 |
| Long Phan | Research Engineer | 40 | $143,070 | $9,584 |
| Alice Gatti | Research Engineer | 40 | $131,032 | $12,691 |
| Rune Tybirk Kvist | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jaan Tallin | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 5 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel James Hendrycks | Executive Dir. Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $213,641 | $7,210 |
| Bri Treece | COO Officer | 40 | $157,420 | $7,818 |
| Oliver Zhang Managing Director | Director Officer | 40 | $35,538 | $2,057 |
| Rune Tybirk Kvist | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jaan Tallin | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 555 MONTGOMERY ST STE 1501, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111-6528
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Daniel Hendrycks
- Signed the 990
- Oliver Zhang, Director
- Phone
- (510) 210-5245
- Website
- www.safe.ai
- Return prepared by
- Tovella Dowling PC
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 88-1751310 or by the name CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
to reduce societal-scale risks associated with artificial intelligence AI by advancing safety research, building the field of AI safety researchers, and promoting safety standards.
Program accomplishments
- Compute Cluster: CAIS runs an initiative to provide free compute for research projects in ML safety, based on a cluster of 256 A100 GPUs with dedicated support staff to enable non-industry researchers to conduct advanced AI safety research requiring cutting-edge models. Since launching in 2022, the CAIS Compute Cluster has become a cornerstone of global AI safety research. By 2024, more than 400 researchers had used the cluster to conduct safety-focused ML research, generating 121 research papers and accumulating over 5,000 citations. The cluster continues to remove financial and technical barriers for non-industry researchers, enabling cutting-edge experimentation through free access to compute.Expenses $2,947,497 · revenue $256,598
- Research: CAIS conducts foundational research aimed at mitigating societal-scale risks posed by artificial intelligence. We develop technical benchmarks and methods which improve AI safety. We also examine AI safety from a multidisciplinary perspective that incorporates safety engineering, complex systems, international relations, and other disciplines. In 2024, CAIS made major strides in foundational AI safety by developing new tools to measure and mitigate national-security risks posed by advanced models. This work included releasing the WMDP Benchmark, the first public dataset for evaluating hazardous knowledge in AI systems; creating circuit breakers, a defense mechanism that reliably prevents harmful outputs even under adversarial attacks; and coordinating Humanity's Last Exam, a global collaboration of nearly 1,000 contributors from more than 500 institutions across 50 countries to assess frontier-level reasoning across 3,000 expert-level questions. CAIS researchers also published 8 papers over the year.Expenses $1,168,082
- Expenses $874,948
- Advocacy: CAIS works to bring AI safety research into practice through engagement with industry leaders, policymakers, and research labs, aiming to build awareness and establish standards for safe AI development and deployment. CAIS saw significant growth in public engagement, expanding its AI Safety Newsletter to 24,000 subscribers, a nearly threefold increase from the prior year, and contributing to over 100 media stories in outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Through research translation, public communication, and collaboration with academic and industry partners, CAIS helped elevate AI safety as a mainstream concern and provided technical grounding for ongoing policy discussions at both state and federal levels.Expenses $777,874
- Field Building: CAIS builds and strengthens the AI safety research community through various initiatives designed to provide support and lower barriers to entry. In 2024, CAIS expanded its field-building initiatives by making AI safety education more accessible and interdisciplinary. We published the textbook Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics & Society, and launched an accompanying online course that enrolled 240 students from varied academic backgrounds. CAIS also strengthened community engagement by hosting workshops at major conferences including NeurIPS, where our workshop on agentic AI systems accepted 34 papers, and organizing AI safety socials at ICML and ICLR with 200+ researchers participating. The SafeBench competition, supported by Schmidt Sciences, attracted nearly 90 benchmark submissions to advance empirical AI safety evaluations.Expenses $520,385
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 88-1751310
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2023
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Science and technology (U05)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $12,638,754
- Income (IRS master file)
- $10,769,815
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $10,235,085 | $7,163,607 | $12,638,754 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $16,089,191 | $8,134,449 | $13,989,499 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $6,660,060 | $816,760 | $5,943,414 | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 88-1751310).
Questions about CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC
- What is the EIN of CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC is 88-1751310.
- Is CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2023.
- Are donations to CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Daniel Hendrycks.
- Who are the officers and directors of CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 10 people; 8 received compensation from the organization, the highest $314,534 (Daniel James Hendrycks, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $10,235,085, expenses of $7,163,607 and total assets of $12,638,754 at year end.
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