Form 990 for tax year 2022
Filed by BERKELEY EXISTENTIAL RISK INITIATIVE.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $6,862,246
- Total expenses
- $3,434,694
- Contributions and grants received
- $6,787,681
- Grants paid
- $515,920
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $29,106
- Other revenue
- $45,459
- Total assets, end of year
- $6,024,691
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $224,433
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $5,800,258
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $3,312,291
- Management and general expenses
- $119,034
- Fundraising expenses
- $3,369
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $3,312,291
Program services were 96.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$6,787,681
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3 · Investment income
total $29,106 · excluded $29,106
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Other
total $45,459 · excluded $45,459
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11e · Other revenue, total
$45,459
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $91,121 · program services $91,121
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $126,500 · program services $126,500
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $298,299 · program services $298,299
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $123,345 · program services $67,765 · management and general $54,348 · fundraising $1,232
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $725,737 · program services $715,935 · management and general $8,931 · fundraising $871
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $36,009 · program services $27,621 · management and general $8,388
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $63,365 · program services $58,686 · management and general $4,518 · fundraising $161
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $30,022 · program services $27,302 · management and general $2,720
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $34,765 · management and general $34,765
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $1,018,204 · program services $1,013,934 · management and general $4,270
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $77,368 · program services $76,377 · management and general $991
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14 · Information technology
total $144,988 · program services $138,120 · management and general $6,868
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $108,768 · program services $105,177 · management and general $3,591
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17 · Travel
total $323,968 · program services $323,468 · management and general $500
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $147,659 · program services $141,048 · management and general $6,611
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $39,553 · program services $39,553
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23 · Insurance
total $11,309 · program services $729 · management and general $10,580
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24a · Other expenses: Honoraria
total $17,149 · program services $17,149
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24b · Other expenses: Staff development and other
total $14,050 · program services $14,050
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24c · Other expenses: Dues, license & service fees
total $2,515 · program services $2,315 · management and general $200
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24d · Other expenses: Shared cost allocation
total $0 · program services $27,142 · management and general -$28,247 · fundraising $1,105
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24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $1,046,081 · end of year $2,592,729
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $1,359,494 · end of year $2,698,822
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $5,926 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $133 · end of year $142
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $20,349 · end of year $343,933
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$437,553
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$48,488
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $15,703 · end of year $389,065
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $74,980 · end of year $224,433
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $472,118 · end of year $724,671
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,900,588 · end of year $5,075,587
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
Our mission is to improve human civilizations long-term prospects for survival and flourishing.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To improve human civilizations long-term prospects for survival and flourishing. Currently, our main strategy is collaborating with university research groups working to reduce existential risk, by providing them with free services and support.
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Collaborations Program - We collaborated with research groups at UC Berkeley, MIT, the University of Oxford, Stanford University, UMass Amherst, and several others, providing free services to support the field of existential risk reduction.
Expenses $3,219,510 · Grants $424,799
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We closed down the BERI Support Fund, and granted the remaining funds from the Bay Area X-risk Community Initiative (BAXCI) to another organization to support a similar program.
Expenses $71,611 · Grants $70,125
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We closed a grants program aimed at reducing existential risk. We finished administering the last of our grants to individuals, and granted the remaining money to another organization for a similar program.
Expenses $21,170 · Grants $20,996
As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Anthony Barrett
Sr Policy Analyst
- Total calculated
- $187,748
- From this org
- $179,593
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,155
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $179,593
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,155
- Filer's total
- $187,748
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Austin Hoag
Mch Learn Engineer
- Total calculated
- $142,734
- From this org
- $138,135
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,599
- Hours/week
- 40
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Sawyer Bernath
Exec Dir/Sectry
- Total calculated
- $123,345
- From this org
- $116,251
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,094
- Hours/week
- 40
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Andrew Critch
Pres/Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Charles Jess Riedel
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
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$70,125
Lightcone infrastructure
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$20,996
Survival and Flourishing
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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501(c)(3) · Grantmaking · CA · controlled entity
Directly controlled by Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 8 November 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202343129349304714
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