Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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| Yes | No | |||||
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Total |
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Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in)
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(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 2,128,968 | 5,618,557 | 11,487,954 | 16,871,388 | 36,106,867 | |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf .... | 0 | |||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 2,128,968 | 5,618,557 | 11,487,954 | 16,871,388 | 36,106,867 | |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f) .. | 3,653,443 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 32,453,424 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in)
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(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 2,128,968 | 5,618,557 | 11,487,954 | 16,871,388 | 36,106,867 | |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 85 | 1,918 | 26,505 | 251,333 | 279,841 | |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 50 | 212 | 5,105 | 152 | 5,519 | |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 36,392,227 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal
year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in)
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(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included on line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 0.015 of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by 0.035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | 1 | |
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
2 | |
| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | 6 | |
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | 7 | |
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8
Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
8 | |
| 9 Distributable amount for 2023 from Section C, line 6 | 9 | |
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | 10 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2023 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2023 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2023 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2023 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI).
See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2023: | ||||
| a From 2018....... | ||||
| b From 2019....... | ||||
| c From 2020....... | ||||
| d From 2021....... | ||||
| e From 2022....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2023 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2018 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2023 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2023 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2023, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2023. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2024. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2019..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2020..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2021..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2022..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2023..... | ||||
| Facts And Circumstances Test |
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Support Schedule: Other Income Explanation | From time to time, miscellaneous amounts are received during the course of performing the organization's tax-exempt function. |
| Software ID: | 23017518 |
| Software Version: | 2023v5.1 |
| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part III, Line 4d | OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Surveys and Data Analysis: Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Surveys and Data Analysis Department supported work in a variety of high priority causes in 2023 through conducting surveys, polling, other forms of psychological and behavioral experiments and focus groups, and data analysis. In the last two years, the team has completed over 100 projects in total, including small-scale consultations and analyses (more than 60 in 2023 alone). Of these, 42 were survey projects (some involving multiple surveys), 47 were data analysis projects, and 17 were private consultations on statistics or methodology. Some highlights include: Polling public attitudes towards important contemporary issues, such as risks associated with Frontier AI systems; Message testing to examine which messages, frames, and brandings lead to the highest levels of support for different causes among different groups; Running experiments for a number of different orgs to assess the effectiveness of different advertisements; Analyzing data for various organizations to help them have a higher impact; Conducting and consulting on academic research projects on topics such as wild animal welfare and human challenge trials. In 2023, RP published 15 reports online, sharing the results of several survey and data analysis projects. The team also supported some of RP's internal work in global health and development and animal welfare. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: 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 ~30 reports in 2023 on topics such as mental health, climate change, and medicine in the developing world. GHD also significantly expanded its work with GiveWell in 2023 as well as formally launched its consulting services work. The GHD team also hosted a global health and development strategy forum, an event which brought together ~20 different stakeholders from the EA GHD community, and they hosted a series of roundtable discussions with other EA organizations doing work in the climate space. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Special Projects: RP's Special Projects (SP) team supports priority projects that RP fiscally sponsors, incubates, or directly launches. Since the SP program launched in July 2022, some notable achievements include: 71 fiscal sponsorship expressions of interest received; 12 projects supported; $5.1m total direct costs of supported projects in 2023 alone; 7 sponsee hiring rounds completed; 71 sponsee staff onboarded (total) of which 42 sponsee staff recruited directly by SP; 20 visa sponsorship applications (UK & US); 8 in-person events; 23 days of on-site event support; and 219 total event attendees. In 2023, the following projects were fiscally sponsored or incubated at RP: Epoch, Existential Risk Alliance (ERA), Apollo Research, Effective Altruism Consulting Network (EACN), Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (QURI), Condor Camp, The Insect Institute, and Insect Welfare Research Society. The SP team also supported founder search for field building for AI Policy and provided event planning services to the Cooperative AI Foundation. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: 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. RP formally launched WIT in January 2023. Some of the research reports produced in 2023 by WIT include: Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight; Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?; Rethink Priorities' Welfare Range Estimates; The Risks and Rewards of Prioritizing Animals of Uncertain Sentience; How Can Risk Aversion Affect Your Cause Prioritization?; Charting the precipice: The time of perils and prioritising x-risk; Uncertainty over time and Bayesian updating; Is x-risk the most cost-effective if we count only the next few generations?; Rethink Priorities' Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model (CCM): Introduction and Overview; How Rethink Priorities is Addressing Risk and Uncertainty. RP's work was referenced by external partners, presented at 15 different academic institutions, including New York University and Princeton, and also picked up by 11 news outlets. A book reporting the results of the project is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 4 | Yes - our charitable purposes and mission were updated (to the version outlined above), as were rules on board member compensation (to allow us to pay a board member up to a few hours a week to help administer to duties of the board). |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b | The board of directors will electronically review Form 990 and audited financial statements prior to submission. Submission will only occur upon majority vote by the board of directors. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c | All staff and board members declare conflicts of interest annually. Prior to financial decisions and programmatic decisions, conflicts are reviewed and adressed as relevant. Restrictions include TDOKEs recusing themselves from decision making processes. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a | Salaries for comparable roles at all levels of RP's title structure were pulled from similar organizations. RP uses a formula for setting most compensation, and exec compensation was compared to these salaries, with a target of salaries falling between the 25th and 75th percentile. Executive salaries are independently reviewed and approved by the board. This process occurred in 2023. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b | Salaries for comparable roles at all levels of RP's title structure were pulled from similar organizations. RP uses a formula for setting most compensation, and staff compensation was compared to these salaries, with a target of salaries falling between the 25th and 75th percentile. This process occurred in 2023. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 | Governing documents and the conflict of interest policy are available upon request. Financial statements are available on the organization's website. |
| Software ID: | 23017518 |
| Software Version: | 2023v5.1 |