Secure AI Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332394289
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8325946937
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,025
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $195,025
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicholas Beckstead (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Nicholas Beckstead (CEO)
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
We develop and advocate for pragmatic policies to reduce risks of severe harm from advanced AI.
What it reported doing in 2024
Today's AI systems are remarkable, exciting, and offer the promise of substantial benefits to society. They also create risks, some of which are well understood and others we are all learning about as the technology advances. Vigilance and adaptability are central to managing those risks.Major AI developers have already agreed, on a voluntary basis, to publish safety and security protocols that describe how they assess, test for, and mitigate potential for severe risks associated with their models.We believe that the AI ecosystem will be stronger, more secure, and more robust if large AI developers are legally required to do this, if whistleblowers who reveal unsafe or noncompliant practices are protected from retaliation, and if developers have clear incentives to mitigate risk in accordance with best practices from industry. We are advocating for these principles to be put into practice in state and federal legislatures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the available information about grant readiness state registration leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.