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Registered charity 1195079 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAF, EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM FOUNDATION

The charity conducts research into the risks and benefits of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. We also provide grants to individuals and organisations to support such research, provide coaching and mentoring, and host events such as conferences and workshops; all aiming at supporting research in this area.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO SHALL BE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PRIMARILY IN THE FIELD OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (SUCH AS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE), IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY CONDUCTING THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES IN ORDER TO CONTRIBUTE TO BETTER PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND RISKS OF SUCH TECHNOLOGIES:(A) CONDUCTING RESEARCH INTO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC;(B) SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, THROUGH PROVIDING GRANTS AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT;(D) HOSTING EVENTS SUCH AS CONFERENCES, RESEARCH RETREATS, AND WORKSHOPS; TO PROMOTE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN, AND TO STIMULATE DISCUSSION AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; AND(E) PROVIDING COACHING, MENTORING AND SCHOLARSHIPS TO THOSE INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; AND2. TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWIN ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, IN PARTICULAR (BUTNOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY GRANTMAKING.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £45,397 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with unrestricted reserves standing at £2,516,822. Per the trustees' report, these reserves significantly exceed the stated policy target of maintaining at least three months' operating expenses, and the trustees consider the financial state satisfactory with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 04/11/2026, 4 days after the 31/10/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tristan Cook — Managing Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~20.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jesse Clifton
• Linh Chi Nguyen
• Maria Taylor
• Max Marian Daniel
• Stefan Torges
• Tobias Baumann

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCIENCE PROJECTS.

• SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
• SOCIETY FOR LONGITUDINAL AND LIFE COURSE STUDIES income £125k
• Charity Technology Leadership income £203k
• THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE income £49.0m
• CENTRE FOR RESPONSIBLE CREDIT LTD income £385k
• PERSPECTIVES ON SYSTEMS, SOULS AND SOCIETY income £296k

Side by side with its peers

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