Delaware · Nonprofit
ASHGRO INC
ASHGRO INC (Delaware) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,521,470 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,564,785). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Ashgro Inc does
Mission
Ashgro's mission is to safeguard humanity by minimizing the risk of misalignment in artificial intelligence. Ashgro accomplishes its mission by operating projects working towards ai alignment through research, workshops, and other educational and charitable activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Apart research - is dedicated to ensuring that advanced artificial intelligence (ai) is safe and beneficial for humanity. In 2024, the program focused on building global research communities to accelerate progress in ai safety. Apart research organized research hackathons, sprints, and fellowship programs that enabled participants to contribute to high-impact safety projects. These initiatives led to several academic publications and fostered collaboration among emerging and established researchers in the field.
$520,593 spentof which $12,082 as grants$25,299 earned by the program22% of program spendingTimaeus is focused on singular learning theory (slt) and developmental interpretability. The project operates with a distributed team of researchers and engineers across three primary hubs in berkeley, london, and melbourne. Timaeus conducts research aimed at understanding and advancing ai safety through the mathematical framework of slt and approaches that study ai systems through their development and learning processes.
$500,354 spentof which $47,878 as grants22% of program spendingOrthogonal is a research initiative focused on advancing the theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence (ai) safety. The team aims to develop a rigorous understanding of how to align increasingly capable ai systems with human values and intent. In 2024, orthogonal published original research on "epistemic states as a potential benign prior," contributing to the public discourse on safe ai development. The team also continued active collaboration with researchers from leading ai safety organizations to refine technical concepts and disseminate findings within the broader research community.
$339,757 spent15% of program spendingOther programs which include fund for ai safety, aed, catalyze impact, stampy, alter, decode research, robert miles youtube, kairos, ontology identification project, affine, sandbagging, cape town, human agency benchmarks, equiano and neural interactive proofs.
$960,441 spentof which $10,320 as grants41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,321,145.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $3.4M (+102%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of ASHGRO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jason Hepburn
President and chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASHGRO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASHGRO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASHGRO INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
68% of ASHGRO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.8M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASHGRO INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ASHGRO INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHGRO INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASHGRO INC?
- ASHGRO INC (Delaware) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,521,470 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,564,785). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASHGRO INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $5,521,470 in grants to ASHGRO INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHGRO INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,564,785 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHGRO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing