Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,577,534
- Total expenses
- $818,217
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,572,534
- Grants paid
- $328,765
- Program service revenue
- $5,000
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $792,451
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $33,084
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $759,367
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $714,105
- Management and general expenses
- $100,587
- Fundraising expenses
- $3,525
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $714,105
Program services were 87.3% 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
$1,572,534
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$190,217
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2a · Program service revenue: CORPORATE METASTRATEGY
total $5,000 · related or exempt $5,000
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $158,765 · program services $158,765
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $170,000 · program services $170,000
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $122,769 · program services $110,000 · management and general $12,769
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $1,730 · program services $1,730
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $10,127 · program services $8,905 · management and general $1,222
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11a · Fees: management
total $65,825 · management and general $65,825
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11b · Fees: legal
total $6,323 · management and general $6,323
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11g · Fees: other
total $220,439 · program services $220,439
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $589 · fundraising $589
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13 · Office expenses
total $11,699 · management and general $11,699
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14 · Information technology
total $44,266 · program services $44,266
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23 · Insurance
total $271 · management and general $271
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24a · Other expenses: PROCESSING FEES AND SER
total $5,414 · management and general $2,478 · fundraising $2,936
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $50 · end of year $648,048
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $144,403
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
end of year $33,084
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $50 · end of year $705,307
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
end of year $54,060
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
We conduct cross-disciplinary research, and build the technical, organizational, and community infrastructure that lets that research matter, so humanity can navigate the decisive technological and societal challenges of the 21st century and secure a flourishing long-term future.
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Lightcone Research: Our primary activity is applied research aimed at safeguarding humanity's long-run prospects. Staff and collaborators investigate questions at the intersection of artificial-intelligence alignment, institutional decision-making, economics, and long-term risk. We:Generate original scholarship through theoretical and empirical projects published as working papers, technical blog posts, and research reports. Operate shared research infrastructure, including the LessWrong and Alignment Forum online platforms, that enables thousands of external scholars to exchange ideas, vet results, and launch joint projects.Host intensive workshops and targeted experiments that pressure-test promising approaches and translate abstract insights into tools groups and individuals can apply immediately.Collaborate with outside laboratories, universities, and think tanks to refine methods, replicate findings, and accelerate the flow of useful knowledge across disciplines.Through this combination of research and infrastructure-building, we equip the people working on humanity's "crucial century" problems with the insights and tools they need to steer civilization toward a broad, flourishing future.
Expenses $714,105 · Grants $328,765 · Revenue $5,000
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FlexHEG Builders: During 2024 we received a grant of $54,060 to design and organize a two-day research workshop (scheduled for early 2025 at FAR Labs, Berkeley) that will convene ~30 investigators (eight funded R & D teams plus external AI-policy, chip-design, and verification specialists) to accelerate hardware-enabled governance (FlexHEG) research for safe, advanced AI. Pre-event work included setting shared IP terms, curating breakout research agendas, and coordinating preliminary design-choice studies so that, at the workshop, participants can refine experimental road-maps, prototype priorities, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Outputs will include openly licensed technical breakouts, draft design documents, and a networked research community positioned to pursue empirical validation of FlexHEG mechanisms.
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Oliver HabrykaOLIVER HABRYKA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $3,000
- From this org
- $3,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 12
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $3,000
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $3,000
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
None.
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
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- FORM 990, SCHEDULE J PART II
- Oliver Habryka, Director of Lightcone Infrastructure Inc., was formally employed by the Center for Applied Rationality, which invoiced Lightcone Infrastructure Inc. for staff time. Oliver Habryka was voluntarily foregoing salary for most of 2024 until December, at which point the Center for Applied Rationality invoiced $3000 of his total wages to Lightcone Infrastructure.
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
-
LIGHTCONE ROSE GARDEN LLC
$158,765
CHARITABLE PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 9 June 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.1
- Source object
- 202511619349300111
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