Contramont Research
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993849338
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lexington, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7813538889
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- General Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,908
- Expenses
- $20
- Assets
- $81,888
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Gritsevskiy (President)
People named in this filing
- Andrew Gritsevskiy (President)
- Andis Draguns (Secretary)
- Jeffrey Ladish (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. The Corporation shall prioritize advancing scientific progress in the fields of artificial intelligence safety research, biological risk prevention, including all purposes arising from the aforementioned research priorities, including, but not limited to, the alignment of artificial intelligence, computational biology and chemistry, and general advances in mathematics.
What it reported doing in 2024
We conducted research in the safety of artificial intelligence systems, in which we investigated the development of provably unelicitable backdoors in language models via cryptographic transformer circuits. We published this research for public dissemination at the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 100%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4,094.4; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th 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: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.