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RETHINK PRIORITIES

EIN 84-3896318 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$20,599,841
Expenses 2024
$20,378,936

Program services were 78.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
530 DIVISADERO ST PMB 796

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

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.

  • 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

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tamay Besiroglu

    Associate Director (Epoch)

    Total calculated
    $214,660
    From this org
    $207,277
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,383
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,318
    Bonus
    $62,860
    Other
    $99
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,383
    Filer's total
    $214,660

  • Charlotte Stix

    Head of AI Governance (Apollo)

    Total calculated
    $185,708
    From this org
    $183,214
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,494
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,845
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $21,369
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,494
    Filer's total
    $185,708

  • Marcus Davis

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $175,974
    From this org
    $145,988
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,986
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,826
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $162
    Deferred
    $4,375
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,611
    Filer's total
    $175,974

  • Peter Hurford Partial Year Co-

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $161,037
    From this org
    $144,470
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,567
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,326
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $144
    Deferred
    $4,230
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,337
    Filer's total
    $161,037

  • Amanda Dakhakhni

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $151,771
    From this org
    $139,409
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,362
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,895
    Bonus
    $11,352
    Other
    $162
    Deferred
    $3,897
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,465
    Filer's total
    $151,771

  • Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill

    Research Scientist

    Total calculated
    $147,898
    From this org
    $140,208
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,690
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lee Sharkey

    Chf Strategy Ofcr

    Total calculated
    $147,027
    From this org
    $133,413
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,614
    Hours/week
    40

  • Daniela Waldhorn

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $143,225
    From this org
    $140,427
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,798
    Hours/week
    40

  • Carolyn Footitt

    COO

    Total calculated
    $136,146
    From this org
    $79,898
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,248
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jaime Sevilla

    CEO Epoch

    Total calculated
    $135,795
    From this org
    $133,489
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,306
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rachel Martinez Partial Year

    COO

    Total calculated
    $119,456
    From this org
    $99,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,718
    Hours/week
    40

  • Abraham Rowe Partial Year

    COO

    Total calculated
    $15,830
    From this org
    $12,824
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,006
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tim Shavers

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $10,441
    From this org
    $8,353
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,088
    Hours/week
    15

  • Abi Olvera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,539
    From this org
    $7,539
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Asheem Singh

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $6,478
    From this org
    $5,252
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,226
    Hours/week
    15

  • Vicky Bond

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daniel Stein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JueYan Zhang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Nikolai Vetr

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Niel Bowerman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Elysha Png

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kirsty Henderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Konstantin Sietzy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $20,599,841
    Expenses
    $20,378,936
    Contributions
    $18,023,477
    Grants paid
    $3,525,908
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $20,897,904
    Expenses
    $14,326,795
    Contributions
    $18,971,388
    Grants paid
    $26,566
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,759,144
    Expenses
    $7,734,979
    Contributions
    $11,487,954
    Grants paid
    $114,367

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,702,287
    Expenses
    $2,030,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,374,075

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,165,350
    Expenses
    $485,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,680,135

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.