Public Charity

CENTER FOR APPLIED RATIONALITY

CENTER FOR APPLIED RATIONALITY is a Public Charity headquartered in BERKELEY, CA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $2.4M revenue, $2.1M expenses, $1.9M total assets. 30 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $15.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 453100226 BERKELEY, CA Medical Research N.E.C. NTEE: H99 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$2.4M
Total Expenses$2.1M
Total Assets$1.9M
Grant Records30
Funding Total$15.1M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

PERFORM AND CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO INDIVIDUAL, COLLECTIVE, AND ARTIFICIAL COGNITION. DO THIS RESEARCH BY: A) SEARCHING FOR IDEAS ON HOW TO ALIGN MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, AND FOR USEFUL IDEAS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE REASONING OF BOTH INDIVIDUAL HUMANS AND GROUPS OF HUMANS; B) TEST WHETHER THE IDEAS FOR ONE PORT TO THE OTHERS; C) TEST OUR IDEAS THROUGH TARGETED EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS, RESEARCH WORKSHOPS, PHYSICAL RESEARCH CENTRES, AND ONLINE RESEARCH FORA; D) COLLABORATE WITH EXTERNAL RESEARCHERS IN RELATED FIELDS.

Where $100 goes at Center for Applied Rationality

How Center for Applied Rationality divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$93 Programs the work itself
$7 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $93 for programs

$49
Research activities (lightcone project)
52% of program spending
$44
Main workshops & research
48% of program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

PRESIDENT Anna Salamon
TEAM LEAD Ben Pace
BOARD MEMBER Divia Caroline Eden
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Jackson Rose
TEAM LEAD Rafe Kennedy
TEAM LEAD Ruben Bloom

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Health & Medicine
$12,444,550 7 grants
General Support
$2,359,982 15 grants
Research & Policy
$225,000 5 grants
Education
$22,740 2 grants
Unspecified
$70,125 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $2.4M $2.1M $1.9M
2024 $6.3M $10.2M $23.0M
2023 $9.1M $9.4M $28.0M
2022 $11.6M $10.2M $26.1M
2021 $4.5M $3.6M $4.4M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue declined from $4.5M to $2.4M (-47%), with total assets most recently reported at $1.9M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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