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Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14; retrieved 2026-09-15 tier 2 ledgerconfirmed

metr-money-figure research ledger and audits

https://github.com/kevinnbass/metr-money-figure/tree/master

Third-party investigative ledger: 150 money-flow rows, 990 e-file object ids, SFF and Tallinn ledgers, DAF Schedule I rows, Wayback captures, four internal audits with per-row verdicts. Its own audit flags overclaims in the rendered figure's legend and 'Direct: $0' wording. Treated here as leads, not findings. Cloned at commit f64df65a1640 on 2026-09-14. [verify 2026-09-15] fetched; page reachable, citation matches

Found via https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/2099621874279817638.

Signals citing this source

  • METR, F (against): Traced inflows in the ledger: no direct grant from Coefficient Giving in its index, but the 2024 spin-out transfer from ARC (seeded by Coefficient and SFF), SFF recommendations funded by an Anthropic Series A investor, a Longview pooled-fund grant, and about $21M through donor-advised funds and the Audacious Project whose underlying donors are not public.“The accounts at SVCF and NPT that pay Coefficient-recommended grants are unattributed”
  • METR, F (for): Bounded negatives on file: no METR-named grant in Coefficient's 2,911-row index (snapshot 2026-09-11) or in the Good Ventures, Schmidt Sciences, Pew, and Packard filings checked; all imported and awaiting re-derivation.“No direct Coefficient grant to METR appears in the checked index and filings”
  • METR, P (against): Board and advisors carry lab ties one or two steps out: a director who founded FAR.AI, which is paid by OpenAI for red-teaming; an advisor who is an a16z partner, the firm that led Thinking Machines' seed; an ex-OpenAI advisor who advises Thinking Machines; a director who leads an insurance-certification startup seeded by an Anthropic co-founder. Former advisors moved to Anthropic and to the OpenAI Foundation board.
  • Palisade Research, F (against): About $3.8M in cumulative Coefficient Giving grants per the index snapshot; Coefficient's principal is an Anthropic Series A investor and board observer by his own account. No bounded negative on lab money is on file.

Ledger rows citing this URL

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