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PROJECT CETI INC

EIN 84-4630660 NEW YORK, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2025
$1,804,666
Expenses 2025
$5,153,324

Program services were 76.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U21
Classification
1280
Street
302 E 19TH ST APT 2C

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

PROJECT CETI (CETACEAN TRANSLATION INITIATIVE) IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT IS APPLYING ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING AND NON-INVASIVE ROBOTICS TO LISTEN TO AND TRANSLATE THE COMMUNICATION OF WHALES.

  • PROJECT CETI WAS FOUNDED IN 2020, AND THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION INCLUDES DEVELOPING THE TECHNOLOGY NEEDED FOR WHALE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EXAMINING AN INITIAL DATA SET FROM CETI'S RESEARCH LOCATION DOMINICA. PROJECT CETI HAS DESIGNED, PLANNED AND CONSTRUCTED PROJECT CETI'S CORE WHALE LISTENING STATION (BUOYS) AS WELL AS CUSTOMIZED EXISTING WHALE TAGS TO IMPROVE DATA COLLECTION METHODS AND BUILT A FULLY AUTOMATIC ML-BASED PIPELINE FROM AUDIO WAVEFORM DATA, INCLUDING CLICK DETECTION, AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF BASIC LOW-LEVEL STRUCTURE (CODAS).

    Expenses $3,915,209 · Grants $88,911

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Gruber

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $185,400
    From this org
    $185,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    16

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $185,400
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $185,400

  • Fiona Korwin-Pawlowski

    CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $189,697
    From this org
    $172,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,197
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $172,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,197
    Filer's total
    $189,697

  • Ashley Zafaranlou

    DIR. PARTNERSHIPS AND CAMP

    Total calculated
    $153,490
    From this org
    $136,294
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,196
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,294
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,196
    Filer's total
    $153,490

  • Stan Altman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jaclinn Tanney

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,804,666
    Expenses
    $5,153,324
    Contributions
    $1,417,999
    Grants paid
    $88,911
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,032,992
    Expenses
    $4,995,870
    Contributions
    $5,621,913
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,229,724
    Expenses
    $6,762,829
    Contributions
    $5,935,679
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,073,332
    Expenses
    $5,233,857
    Contributions
    $8,031,857
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,996,157
    Expenses
    $4,528,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,739,468

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,830,464
    Expenses
    $6,445
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,162,262

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.