Measuring AI Progress Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
392947250
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Wilmington, DE, USA
Phone
5712007155
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Daniel Kang (President)
  • Chris Canal (CEO)
  • Connor Tabarrok (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Daniel Kang (President)
  • Chris Canal (CEO)
  • Connor Tabarrok (Vice President)

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 mission of our organization is to advance the public understanding and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) by rigorously measuring and publishing scientific evaluations of AI capabilities, alignment, and risks. We serve researchers, policymakers, nonprofit institutions, educators, and the general public by providing high-quality, open-access evaluations, tools, and benchmarks. Our long-term goal is to ensure that rapid AI development proceeds in a manner that is transparent, accountable, and aligned with public benefit. As AI capabilities accelerateparticularly in large language models, robotics, and multi-modal systemsthere is an increasing societal need for neutral, scientific measurement of progress. Unlike corporate leaderboards or proprietary evaluations, our organization will develop public-good infrastructure for measurement: open-weight evaluations, reproducible testbeds, and longitudinal capability tracking. We will develop and publish on benchmarks to track AI capa

What it reported doing in 2025

Began fund raising for purpose of safety research of AI

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 1 of 1 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.