Nonprofit · EIN 84-3896318
RETHINK PRIORITIES
Tax-exempt · SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $20,599,841 | $20,378,936 | $220,905 | $18,996,175 | $3,928,031 | $15,068,144 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $20,897,904 | $14,326,795 | $6,571,109 | $16,266,409 | $1,419,170 | $14,847,239 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $18,023,477
- Program service revenue
- $1,909,530
- Investment income
- $638,944
- Other revenue
- $27,890
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $3,525,908
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $821,717
- Other salaries and wages
- $9,688,714
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $12,673,863
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $73,427
- Accounting fees
- $26,481
- Travel
- $912,928
- Program services (functional)
- $15,910,259
- Management and general (functional)
- $3,904,282
- Fundraising (functional)
- $564,395
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $16,266,409
- Total assets, end of year
- $18,996,175
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $3,928,031
- Net assets, end of year
- $15,068,144
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $4,662,867
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $10,405,277
- Gross receipts
- $20,599,841
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 2
- Year formed
- 2019
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamay Besiroglu | Associate Director (Epoch) | 40 | $207,277 | $7,383 |
| Charlotte Stix | Head of AI Governance (Apollo) | 40 | $183,214 | $2,494 |
| Marcus Davis | CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $145,988 | $29,986 |
| Peter Hurford Partial Year Co- | CEO Officer | 40 | $144,470 | $16,567 |
| Amanda Dakhakhni | Program Director | 40 | $139,409 | $12,362 |
| Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill | Research Scientist | 40 | $140,208 | $7,690 |
| Lee Sharkey | Chf Strategy Ofcr | 40 | $133,413 | $13,614 |
| Daniela Waldhorn | Program Director | 40 | $140,427 | $2,798 |
| Carolyn Footitt | COO Officer | 40 | $79,898 | $56,248 |
| Jaime Sevilla | CEO Epoch | 40 | $133,489 | $2,306 |
| Rachel Martinez Partial Year | COO Officer | 40 | $99,738 | $19,718 |
| Abraham Rowe Partial Year | COO Officer | 40 | $12,824 | $3,006 |
| Tim Shavers | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 15 | $8,353 | $2,088 |
| Abi Olvera | Director Trustee or director | 10 | $7,539 | $0 |
| Asheem Singh | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 15 | $5,252 | $1,226 |
8 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vicky Bond | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Daniel Stein | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JueYan Zhang | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| Nikolai Vetr | President Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Niel Bowerman | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| Elysha Png | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| Kirsty Henderson | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Konstantin Sietzy | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 16 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Davis Co-CEO | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $144,922 | $23,740 |
| Samara Mendez | Senior Economist | 40 | $130,985 | $34,946 |
| Abraham Rowe | COO Officer | 40 | $140,366 | $19,245 |
| Peter Hurford Co- | CEO Officer | 40 | $147,892 | $11,513 |
| William McAuliffe | Senior Researcher | 40 | $120,683 | $26,628 |
| Greer Gosnell | Senior Researcher | 40 | $130,236 | $9,467 |
| Amanda El-Dakhakhni | Snr. Research Mgr. | 40 | $130,660 | $6,283 |
| Melanie Basnak | Senior Researcher | 40 | $120,683 | $11,473 |
| Elysha Png | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $12,079 | $0 |
| Abi Olvera Secretary | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $10,698 | $0 |
| Ozzie Gooen | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Cameron Meyer | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Vicky Bond | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| JueYan Zhang Treasurer | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Nikolai Vetr President | Director Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Niel Bowerman | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 530 DIVISADERO ST PMB 796, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117-2213
- In care of
- % MARCUS A DAVIS
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Marcus Davis, 530 Divisadero Street PMB 796, San Francisco, CA 94117
- Signed the 990
- Carolyn Footitt, COO
- Phone
- (202) 681-3090
- Website
- rethinkpriorities.org
- Return prepared by
- Cook & Company A Prof Actcy Corporation
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 84-3896318 or by the name RETHINK PRIORITIES.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
Rethink Priorities' mission is to support organizations, researchers, and changemakers in efforts to generate the most significant possible charitable impact for others in the present and the long-term future.
Program accomplishments
- Special Projects: RP's Special Projects (SP) team supports priority projects that RP fiscally sponsors, incubates, or directly launches. In 2024, some of SP's notable achievements include: 42 fiscal sponsorship expressions of interest received; 10 projects supported; $6.4m total direct costs of supported projects; 7 sponsee hiring rounds completed; 39 total sponsee staff at year end; 6 visa sponsorship applications (UK & US); 9 in-person events; and 216 total event attendees. In 2024, the following projects were fiscally sponsored or incubated at RP: Epoch, Apollo Research, Consultants for Impact (CFI - previously the Effective Altruism Consulting Network), Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (QURI), Condor Camp, The Insect Institute, Insect Welfare Research Society, the Vista Institute for AI Policy, Global Challenges Project, and provided general administrative support services to Pow-dr.Expenses $9,660,958 · grants $3,082,855 · revenue $960,504
- AI Policy and Strategy: In 2024, Rethink Priorities' (RP's) AI work was conducted by the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS). A brief overview of IAPS' four main workstreams and 2024 accomplishments follows: (1) Compute policy work aims to explore novel interventions and strategic considerations for managing access to massive AI compute resources. In 2024, IAPS work on this area included publishing a landmark paper with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) focused on using on-chip governance mechanisms to manage national security risks from AI and advanced computing, working on a forthcoming (published in 2025) report on location verification for advanced AI chips, and publishing a report analyzing the potential impact of high-end consumer GPUs on the efficacy of US export controls on AI chips. The work has received significant interest from US policymakers. (2) Frontier Security work aims to identify concrete interventions to address AI-related threats to national defense and security and protect innovation. Accomplishments in 2024 include publications analyzing advanced AI companies' RSPs (responsible scaling plans) and providing recommendations, a systematic analysis of regulatory precedents from all federal agencies, an early warning system for dual-use capabilities which lays out info-sharing paths between AI companies, government, and critical defenders, publications examining safety R&D efforts by advanced AI labs and the role the UK government can play in leading AI assurance, multiple RFI responses on key topics regarding AI, and upcoming reports (published in 2025) on differential access for cybersecurity capabilities, and on promising directions in AI reliability R&D. (3) International Strategy work aims to study trends in international coordination and competition around advanced AI. In 2024, published research included advice on topics for AI Track IIs that minimize risks of leaking sensitive information, an analysis of the first wave of AI safety institutes and key questions for the international network of these institutes, as well as analysis of China including counterparts to AI safety institutes and a comparison of US and China's approaches to governing advanced AI. (4) IAPS programs department ran an AI policy fellowship with 13 fellows, who now hold relevant positions in advanced AI labs, US and UK government, and think tanks.Expenses $2,289,390 · revenue $74,441
- Animal Welfare: Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Animal Welfare (AW) Department aims to be a leading hub of research and innovation to accelerate the end of factory farming and reduce the suffering of other animals. Through work spanning independent research, consulting services, and applied projects, the team supports advocacy organizations, philanthropic foundations, and other actors to drive evidence-based and reason-driven change for animals. Some notable accomplishments from the Animal Welfare department during 2024 include: A series of case studies demonstrating innovative initiatives that are shifting consumption towards plant-based alternatives in replacing animal-based products; a cost-effectiveness analysis of various interventions (viz., institutional meat reduction work in US and Western Europe, farmed fish stunning in Europe); estimating the production costs and future capacity of the insect farming sector; creating strategic roadmaps for multiple areas of animal advocacy (viz., farmed shrimp, wild animals); and hosting the Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum to provide an annual space for leaders of animal advocacy organizations to strengthen the movement.Expenses $1,894,145 · grants $443,053 · revenue $46,170
- Global Health and Development: Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Global Health and Development (GHD) Department conducts high quality research on important global health, international development, and climate issues and uses its research to influence relevant stakeholders, such that they move resources towards more cost-effective interventions to ultimately increase wellbeing in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). GHD completed around 20 reports in 2024 on topics such as infectious disease, climate change, and health systems in the developing world. GHD also expanded its consulting services work, advising major foundations on cost-effective giving strategies. It also hosted a second annual global health and development strategy forum, bringing together around 20 different stakeholders working in related areas.Expenses $991,236 · revenue $793,977
- Worldview Investigations - Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Worldview Investigations Team (WIT) exists to improve resource allocation by focusing on tractable, high-impact questions that bear on philanthropic priorities. WIT builds on RP's work as a multi-cause, stakeholder-driven research organization and aims to take action-relevant philosophical, methodological, and strategic problems and turn them into manageable, modelable problems. In 2024, we published a sequence of reports ('Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools Sequence') introducing two interactive tools that can be used to inform philanthropic funding: a Portfolio tool for optimising allocations of resources across a portfolio of different causes and a Parliament tool that helps actors navigate normative uncertainty using a 'moral parliament' approach. WIT also developed and published three research agendas, outlining key research questions needing to be addressed in this space, concerning general philanthropic resource allocation, prioritizing animal welfare across different species and digital welfare in the case of advanced digital systems. We also began work related to our digital welfare research agenda, releasing a report outlining 'Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools Sequence.' We also presented our work at several academic conferences, including DePauw University ("Risky Giving: Navigating Uncertainty When Trying to Do Good"), University of Guelph ("The Moral Weight Project"), Stanford ("Welfare Comparisons and Moral Weights"), and University of Colorado Boulder ("Getting Animals into BCA").Expenses $641,588
- Surveys and Data Analysis: Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Surveys and Data Analysis Department supported work in a variety of high priority causes in 2024 through conducting surveys, polling, other forms of psychological and behavioral experiments and focus groups, and data analysis. This included running a series of surveys to examine the changing use of LLMs, and their potential influence on automation, in the general public and key industries and occupations, as well as conducting in-depth interviews with a smaller number of advanced users of LLMs. We also ran and published the results of a further wave of our regular Pulse survey, a nationally representative survey of the US population, assessing attitudes towards charitable donation, different cause areas, and their awareness of and attitudes towards effective altruism, as well as artificial intelligence. We also collaborated with academics to produce an academic publication, under review at Technological Forecasting & Social Change, concerning public and expert attitudes towards societal risks from AI. We also independently published a report on the attitudes of the British public regarding extinction risk. We also published several reports related to the effective altruism philanthropic community, concerning the time prioritisation in the community, optimal framings for communicating about the community, personality psychology in the community and community health. We also completed various private surveys and data analyses to inform the work of high impact organizations, for example, concerning attitudes towards baitfish welfare policies, black soldier fly larvae farming and changes in the number of EAs across different global locations.Expenses $432,942 · revenue $34,438
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 84-3896318
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2020
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Human services (P20)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $18,996,175
- Income (IRS master file)
- $20,599,841
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $20,599,841 | $20,378,936 | $18,996,175 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $20,897,904 | $14,326,795 | $16,266,409 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $12,759,144 | $7,734,979 | $11,526,295 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 84-3896318).
Questions about RETHINK PRIORITIES
- What is the EIN of RETHINK PRIORITIES?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of RETHINK PRIORITIES is 84-3896318.
- Is RETHINK PRIORITIES tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2020.
- Are donations to RETHINK PRIORITIES tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does RETHINK PRIORITIES file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of RETHINK PRIORITIES due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did RETHINK PRIORITIES last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of RETHINK PRIORITIES?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Marcus Davis.
- Who are the officers and directors of RETHINK PRIORITIES?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 23 people; 15 received compensation from the organization, the highest $207,277 (Tamay Besiroglu, Associate Director (Epoch)).
- How much revenue does RETHINK PRIORITIES have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $20,599,841, expenses of $20,378,936 and total assets of $18,996,175 at year end.
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