Centaur Ai Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933149384
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lincoln, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6462582261
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,009
- Expenses
- $174,087
- Assets
- $28,114
- Liabilities
- $166,951
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALEXANDER GRAY (DIRECTOR, CEO & CFO)
People named in this filing
- ALEXANDER GRAY (DIRECTOR, CEO & CFO)
- NICK FEAMSTER PHD (DIRECTOR)
- WENDY LEI HSU JD (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The centaur ai institute is a non-profit scientific organization whose mission is to 1) illuminate the technical path to safer and more capable ai through fundamental research and 2) advance its adoption through education throughout the ai ecosystem.
What it reported doing in 2025
The neuro-symbolic ai summer school (nsss): as the institute's flagship educational initiative, the annual summer school provides a curated, intensive "crash course" designed to bridge the gap between statistical machine learning and symbolic ai. The program serves an international audience of graduate students, data scientists, and researchers. The curriculum features lectures from global luminaries, hands-on tutorials on neuro-symbolic software, and guided group discussions. The program's primary goal is to democratize access to cutting-edge ai research, fostering a "culture of learning" that equips the next generation of scientists to develop ai systems that are more interpretable, reliable, and data-efficient.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 48%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -123.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.94; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 48% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.