Center for Applied Rationality

Analysis

Center for Applied Rationality is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Center for Applied Rationality reported income of $9.1m and spending of $9.4m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $9.1m (+480%), an average of +55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 157%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Center for Applied Rationality sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Maui Health Foundation ($9.1m), Care Ring Inc ($9.1m) and Trust Women Foundation Inc ($9.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.8m (19% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $28.0m against liabilities of $23.6m, net assets of $4.4m. It reported 18 employees.