Public Charity

CENTER FOR APPLIED RATIONALITY

CENTER FOR APPLIED RATIONALITY is a Public Charity headquartered in BERKELEY, CA. Financial data from the 2024 filing: $6.3M revenue, $10.2M expenses, $23.0M total assets. 29 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $15.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 453100226 BERKELEY, CA Latest filing: 2024
Total Revenue$6.3M
Total Expenses$10.2M
Total Assets$23.0M
Grant Records29
Funding Total$15.1M
Filing Years2020–2024

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.

Officers & Directors

PRESIDENT Anna Salamon
TEAM LEAD Ben Pace
TEAM LEAD Charlie Rogers-Smith
BOARD MEMBER Divia Caroline Eden
TEAM LEAD James Babcock
TEAM LEAD Lucas Teixeira

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Top Grant Purposes

Health
$10,514,200 5 grants
HEALTH
$1,930,350 2 grants
General Support/ Lesswrong 2.0
$1,350,000 1 grant
General support
$300,000 1 grant
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
$250,250 2 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
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
2020 $2.3M $2.0M $3.4M

Between 2020 and 2024, reported annual revenue grew from $2.3M to $6.3M (+172%), with total assets most recently reported at $23.0M.

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