COOPERATIVE AI FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1201294 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all. We conduct grantmaking and run events to further this mission.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (“AI”) AND RELATED FIELDS, WITH A FOCUS ON COOPERATIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF AI SYSTEMS, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.(B) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING THE USE, DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION OF AI SYSTEMS IN WAYS THAT ARE SAFE FOR THE PUBLIC.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, “COOPERATIVE INTELLIGENCE” REFERS TO METHODS FOR ACHIEVING OR ENHANCING COOPERATION (WITH OTHER AI SYSTEMS AND/OR WITH HUMANS).

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £506,593 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £2,214,304. Per the trustees' report, this balance remains comfortably in excess of the stated reserves policy target of approximately £250,000. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Schmidt Sciences — “Together with Schmidt Sciences, Google DeepMind, the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), and supported by Google.org, we’re announc…” (source page)
• Google DeepMind — “Together with Schmidt Sciences, Google DeepMind, the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), and supported by Google.org, we’re announc…” (source page)
• Advanced Research + Invention Agency — “Together with Schmidt Sciences, Google DeepMind, the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), and supported by Google.org, we’re announc…” (source page)
• Google.org — “Together with Schmidt Sciences, Google DeepMind, the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), and supported by Google.org, we’re announc…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof. Gillian Kereldena Hadfieldchair
• Allan Dafoe
• Dr Thore Graepel
• Feng Tang
• Jesse Thomas Scott Clifton

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE AI EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

• THE AI EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £158k
• CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF FUNDRAISING income £4.4m
• CPA CHARITABLE FUNDS income £215k
• ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS income £1.7m
• IAITH CYF income £221k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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