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REDWOOD RESEARCH GROUP INC

EIN 87-1702255 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2024
$22,060
Expenses 2024
$2,922,498

Program services were 90.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U05
Classification
1000
Street
2150 SHATTUCK AVE STE 1200

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

Mission

AI RESEARCH - REDWOOD RESEARCH CONDUCTED RESEARCH ON AI INTERPRETABILITY AND ADVERSARIAL TRAINING TECHNIQUES. AS PART OF THE RESEARCH, WE PUBLISHED BLOG POSTS AND LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

REDWOOD RESEARCH RESEARCHES RISKS THAT COULD ARISE IF POWERFUL AI SYSTEMS ACT AGAINST HUMAN INTERESTS, AIMING TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF THESE RISKS AND DEVELOP TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOW HUMANS TO MANAGE THESE RISKS WHILE STILL REALIZING THE BENEFITS OF AI.

  • AI RESEARCH - REDWOOD RESEARCH RESEARCHES RISKS THAT COULD ARISE IF POWERFUL AI SYSTEMS ACT AGAINST HUMAN INTERESTS, AIMING TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF THESE RISKS AND DEVELOP TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOW HUMANS TO MANAGE THESE RISKS WHILE STILL REALIZING THE BENEFITS OF AI.

    Expenses $2,647,359 · Grants $679,955

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • MICHAEL SHLEGERIS

    CEO, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $283,465
    From this org
    $272,164
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,301
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $272,164
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,750
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,551
    Filer's total
    $283,465

  • NATHANIEL THOMAS

    DIRECTOR, BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AJEYA COTRA

    DIRECTOR (THRU 8/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMMON BARTRAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMES BREGAN

    SECRETARY, TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • RYAN GREENBLATT

    CHIEF SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $322,610
    From this org
    $314,922
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,688
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $314,922
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,688
    Filer's total
    $322,610

  • FABIEN ROGER

    TECHNICAL STAFF (THRU 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $145,529
    From this org
    $141,452
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,077
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $22,060
    Expenses
    $2,922,498
    Contributions
    $9,659
    Grants paid
    $679,955
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,036,347
    Expenses
    $12,590,834
    Contributions
    $9,398,000
    Grants paid
    $5,097,655
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,049,894
    Expenses
    $12,759,191
    Contributions
    $11,974,000
    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
    $13,904,248
    Expenses
    $2,341,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,523,608

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

  • CONSTELLATION RESEARCH CENTER INC

    $4,341,360

    2023 TRANSFER OF $4,341,360 GRANT TO REDWOOD RESTRICTED FOR USE FOR CONSTELLATION, AND OTHER ASSETS DEEMED TO BELONG TO NEW CONSTELLATION ENTITY AS PART OF THE GRANT OF THE CONSTELLATION PROGRAM FROM REDWOOD.

  • CONSTELLATION RESEARCH CENTER INC

    $250,000

    2024 TRANSFER OF $250,000 GRANT AND $429,955 LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENT DEEMED TO BELONG TO NEW CONSTELLATION ENTITY AS PART OF THE GRANT OF THE CONSTELLATION PROGRAM FROM REDWOOD FOR GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT.

  • FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

    $200,000

    2023 GENERAL SUPPORT

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Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.