California · Nonprofit
CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE
CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being JOYCE & DANIEL COWIN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $-138837
What Centaur Ai Institute does
Mission
The Centaur Ai Institute is a non-profit scientific organization whose mission is to 1) illuminate the technical path to safer and more capable ai through fundamental research and 2) advance its adoption through education throughout the ai ecosystem.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The neuro-symbolic ai summer school (nsss): as the institute's flagship educational initiative, the annual summer school provides a curated, intensive "crash course" designed to bridge the gap between statistical machine learning and symbolic ai. The program serves an international audience of graduate students, data scientists, and researchers. The curriculum features lectures from global luminaries, hands-on tutorials on neuro-symbolic software, and guided group discussions. The program's primary goal is to democratize access to cutting-edge ai research, fostering a "culture of learning" that equips the next generation of scientists to develop ai systems that are more interpretable, reliable, and data-efficient.
$83,511 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,511.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Alexander Gray
Director, CEO & CFO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE: 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 CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE?
- CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being JOYCE & DANIEL COWIN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE?
- JOYCE & DANIEL COWIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTAUR AI INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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