ALIGNMENT RESEARCH CENTER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

U40

Classification

2800

Street

440 N BARRANCA AVE 9807

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 · 2024

• THE THEORY TEAM ACHIEVED SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES INCLUDING (I) PUBLISHING THE FIRST EMPIRICAL PAPER ON LOW PROBABILITY ESTIMATION IN LANGUAGE MODELS, ALONGSIDE ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS ON BACKDOOR DEFENSE, LEARNABILITY AND OBFUSCATION, AND HEURISTIC ESTIMATION METHODOLOGIES, (II) RELEASING A UNIFIED RESEARCH VISION DOCUMENT ARTICULATING THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK UNDERLYING THE TEAM'S RESEARCH PROGRAM, AND (III) EXPANDING RESEARCH CAPACITY BY HIRING THREE FULL-TIME RESEARCHERS AND HOSTING APPROXIMATELY EIGHT VISITING RESEARCHERS.

  Expenses $1,880,951

• EVALUATIONS (DISCONTINUED): PRIOR TO COMPLETING THE SPIN OUT IN MAY, THE EVALUATIONS TEAM HAD A NUMBER OF ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDING (I) DEVELOPING AND PUBLISHING A SUITE OF RESOURCES AND METHODOLOGIES FOR CONDUCTING EVALUATIONS OF AI SYSTEM AUTONOMY, (II) EXPANDING THE ENGINEERING TEAM LEADING TO THE PUBLICATION OF AN OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR CONDUCTING AUTONOMY EVALUATIONS, (III) SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY-STANDARD RISK MANAGEMENT POLICIES AT MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING ANTHROPIC AND GOOGLE DEEPMIND.

  Expenses $6,639,582 · Grants $4,553,935

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,219,369

  Expenses

  $9,054,183

  Contributions

  $5,219,333

  Grants paid

  $4,553,935

• 2023

  Revenue

  $10,043,597

  Expenses

  $6,272,135

  Contributions

  $10,043,543

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,466,022

  Expenses

  $1,425,170

  Contributions

  $4,466,000

  Grants paid

  $262,000

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

  $475,650

  Expenses

  $153,352

  Assets (EOY)

  $323,598

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

• MODEL EVALUATION AND THREAT RESEARCH INC

  $4,477,169

  2024 · PROGRAM SPIN-OFF

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA

  $1,500,000

  2022 · GENERAL NONPROFIT SUPPORT

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $1,401,000

  2023 · Sciences

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $1,000,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $400,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $201,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC

  $147,000

  2024 · FUND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

• EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA

  $100,000

  2023 · RESEARCH ON AI SAFETY

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $100,000

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA

  $54,543

  2022 · RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION ON AI ALIGNMENT

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $50,450

  2024 · Sciences

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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