Center for Applied Rationality
Donations deductibleRevenue
$2.4m
year to 31 December 2025
Expenses
$2.1m
year to 31 December 2025
Total assets
$1.9m
$955k liabilities
Net assets
$895k
assets less liabilities
Directors and trustees
3
5.1 years on average
Staff
17
2 volunteers
Left since last filing
0
no seats appear to have opened
Officers and senior staff
16
named in Part VII
Center for Applied Rationality's network
3 people1 organisationi3 people and 1 organisation on this map.The large node is the subject of this page. Solid lines are what the register itself records (3). Violet dotted lines (1) are likely: the same full name sits on the current board of another organisation in the same register and region. Form 990 filings give names without a person identifier; SEC insider filings carry a CIK. It may be a different person.The board
3 listediTime on the board is observed from the annual filings: the IRS files no appointment date, so the bar counts years from the first filing the person appears on - a lower bound, not a filed start date. Names are exactly as filed. The IRS publishes no person identifier, so this edition does not yet link a person across organisations in the tables. The network map shows same-name matches as likely links only, never as confirmed.Time served and departures are observed across annual filings. Observed time served is a lower bound - a member may have joined before the first year on record. The organisation reported 3 voting members of its governing body on its latest Form 990 Part VI, which matches the board listed here.| Name | Role as filed | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Salamon | President | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Divia Caroline Eden | Board Member | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| ZVI Mowshowitz | Board Member | 2022 | 4 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Officers and senior leadership
16 listediNamed in Part VII as officers, key employees or highest-compensated staff - not board members, shown for completeness.| Name | Title as filed | On the filings |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Salamon | President | since 2018 |
| Ben Pace | Team Lead | since 2022 |
| Charlie Rogers-Smith | Team Lead | 2024 |
| Jackson Carrol | Director of Operations | 2023 |
| Jackson Carroll | Director of Operations | since 2020 |
| Jacob Lagerros | Team Lead | since 2022 |
| James Babcock | Team Lead | since 2022 |
| Lucas Teixeira | Team Lead | 2024 |
| Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg | Team Lead | 2024 |
| Oliver Habryka | Team Lead | since 2023 |
| Rafe Kennedy | Team Lead | since 2023 |
| Raymond Arnold | Team Lead | since 2022 |
| Robert Mushkatblat | Team Lead | since 2022 |
| Ronny Fernandez | Team Lead | 2024 |
| Ruben Bloom | Team Lead | since 2021 |
| Timothy Telleen-Lawton | Executive Director | since 2018 |
Pay and hours
year to 31 December 2025iFrom Part VII of the Form 990: compensation reported for each officer, director, trustee, key employee and highest-paid staff member, and the average hours a week they report. Most board members are unpaid; a blank means nothing was reported. Pay from related organisations is shown separately.| Name | Title as filed | Hours a week | Pay from the organisation | Related organisations | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruben Bloom | Team Lead | 40 | $211k | $28k | |
| Rafe Kennedy | Team Lead | 40 | $202k | $10k | |
| Ben Pace | Team Lead | 40 | $134k | $8k | |
| Jackson Rose | Director of Operations | 5 | $63k | $7k | |
| Anna Salamon | President | 5 | $22k | $15k | |
| Divia Caroline Eden | Board Member | 1 | $0 | ||
| Zvi Mowshowitz | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
About
- Legal name
- Center for Applied Rationality
- EIN
- 453100226
- Address
- 2740 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705-1131
- State
- California
- 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... (as filed on the Form 990)
- Activity (NTEE)
- H99 Medical research
- IRS classification
- 501(c)03 (tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) where shown)
- Classified purpose
- Medical Research
- Size band
- 8 (IRS master file code)
- Formed
- 2011
- Principal officer
- Anna Salamon (as named on the Form 990)
- IRS ruling date
- 1 June 2012
- Status
- Code 01 (unconditional exemption)
- Form 990 filings on record
- 7, latest 2024
- IRS Publication 78
- PC (contributions deductible)
Most connected
Longest observed on the filings
≥6years on the filingsAnna Salamon
≥4years on the filingsDivia Caroline Eden
≥4years on the filingsZVI Mowshowitz
Latest return
year to 31 December 2025iFigures from the newest Form 990 or 990-EZ in the IRS e-file releases of 2025 and 2026, for the year ending 31 December 2025. US dollars, as filed.- Total assets
- $1.9m
- Total liabilities
- $955k
- Net assets or fund balances
- $895k
- Contributions and grants received
- $397k
- Program service revenue
- $807k
- Grants and similar paid out
- $88k
- Employees
- 17
- Volunteers
- 2
Filed finances
1 yeariTotals as filed on the IRS Form 990 (revenue and expenses), by tax year.| Tax year | Total revenue | Total expenses | Surplus or deficit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.3m | $10.2m | Deficit $3.8m |
As filed on the IRS Form 990. US dollars.
Grants paid
1 listediFrom Schedule I of the Form 990: grants and assistance to organisations in the United States, largest first (up to 25). Schedule I is filed only by organisations that gave more than $5,000 to any one recipient.| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Lightcone Infrastructure Inc | Grants to lightcone infrastructure inc. To support the prototype project, including funding for personnel and project-related expenses, as w | $77k |