Form 990-EZ for tax year 2025
Filed by SUMMER PROGRAM FOR APPLIED RATIONALITY AND COGNITION INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $170,294
- Total expenses
- $123,732
- Contributions and grants received
- $170,000
- Grants paid
- $750
- Program service revenue
- not reported
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- not reported
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- not reported
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- not reported
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $294
- Total assets, end of year
- $228,527
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,965
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $226,562
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $98,447
Program services were 79.6% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
to provide extraordinary education for talented youth to learn about applying quantitative skills to the world.
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The Organization hosted its annual two-week Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition in July 2025 in California for a select cohort of high school students. The program is designed to develop students' quantitative skills and their ability to apply those skills to real-world situations. The program is offered entirely free of charge, including room and board, to ensure accessibility and attract the most promising students regardless of financial means. In 2025, 30 students participated in the program. The Organization also began planning the Compass Fellowship, a free five-day residential program for intellectually curious and ambitious young people focused on self-reflection, personal growth, and developing the mindset to create meaningful change in the world. The Compass Fellowship is set to run in 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Expenses $98,447 · Grants $750
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
-
Yan Zhang
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 2
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Damon Pourtahmaseb-Sasi
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
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Xun David Yu
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 10
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 9 July 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202611909349200136
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