2025-10-14T12:47:52-07:00 2024-12-31 472626541 Cook & Company A Prof Actcy Corporation One Sansome St Ste 3500 San Francisco CA 94104 990 2024-01-01 843896318 Rethink Priorities RETH 2026813090 530 Divisadero Street PMB 796 San Francisco CA 94117 Carolyn Footitt COO 2025-10-14 true true Douglas Cook PhDMPACPA P01521705 4156211112 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Marcus Davis 530 Divisadero Street PMB 796 San Francisco CA 94117 20599841 false X rethinkpriorities.org X 2019 CA 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. 8 4 0 2 0 18971388 18023477 1693680 1909530 232684 638944 152 27890 20897904 20599841 26566 3525908 0 10646241 12673863 0 564395 3653988 4179165 14326795 20378936 6571109 220905 16266409 18996175 1419170 3928031 14847239 15068144 X 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. false false 9660958 3082855 960504 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. 2289390 74441 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. 1894145 443053 46170 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. 991236 793977 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. 641588 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"). 432942 34438 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. 2065766 828415 15910259 true true false true false false false false false false false false false false true false true false false true true false false false false false false true false true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false true 72 0 true 0 false true UK false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 8 4 false false true false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA IL MN NY PA X X Carolyn Footitt 2026813090 530 Divisadero St PMB 796 San Francisco CA 94117 Tamay Besiroglu Associate Director (Epoch) 40.00 0.00 207277 0 7383 Charlotte Stix Head of AI Governance (Apollo) 40.00 0.00 183214 0 2494 Marcus Davis CEO 40.00 0.00 X X 145988 0 29986 Peter Hurford Partial Year Co- CEO 40.00 0.00 X 144470 0 16567 Amanda Dakhakhni Program Director 40.00 0.00 139409 0 12362 Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill Research Scientist 40.00 0.00 140208 0 7690 Lee Sharkey Chf Strategy Ofcr 40.00 0.00 133413 0 13614 Daniela Waldhorn Program Director 40.00 0.00 140427 0 2798 Carolyn Footitt COO 40.00 0.00 X 79898 0 56248 Jaime Sevilla CEO Epoch 40.00 0.00 133489 0 2306 Rachel Martinez Partial Year COO 40.00 0.00 X 99738 0 19718 Abraham Rowe Partial Year COO 40.00 0.00 X 12824 0 3006 Tim Shavers Secretary 15.00 0.00 X X 8353 0 2088 Abi Olvera Director 10.00 0.00 X 7539 0 0 Asheem Singh Treasurer 15.00 0.00 X X 5252 0 1226 Vicky Bond Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Daniel Stein Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JueYan Zhang Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Nikolai Vetr President 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Niel Bowerman Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Elysha Png Director 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kirsty Henderson Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Konstantin Sietzy Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 1581499 177486 44 false true false Remote Technology Services Inc 1209 Orange St Wilmington DE 19801 tech. services 196046 Ege Eredil Konutkent Mah 298th Street Apt 4 Ankara TU 06810 expert research support 139182 2 18023477 18023477 Research contracts 541900 1909530 1909530 1909530 638944 638944 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Miscellaneous 900099 27890 27890 27890 20599841 1909530 666834 3525908 3525908 0 0 0 821717 356283 445757 19677 0 9688714 7278528 2005388 404798 388943 307775 64543 16625 488693 376285 94369 18039 1285796 945006 293036 47754 0 73427 73427 26481 26481 0 0 0 1790939 1332695 454537 3707 0 57722 53524 2939 1259 260893 144890 101741 14262 0 0 912928 771777 115359 25792 0 0 0 0 0 64137 62554 1583 Facility rentals 722783 678147 39231 5405 Other 141400 78428 57500 5472 Compliance & filing fees 67442 67420 22 Survey expenses 61013 61013 0 20378936 15910259 3904282 564395 1397961 1515692 7777438 16922799 6967840 249470 123170 287582 0 0 0 0 20632 0 0 0 0 0 0 16266409 18996175 314217 483458 3103764 704953 176196 400000 164613 1419170 3928031 X 978336 4662867 13868903 10405277 14847239 15068144 16266409 18996175 220905 X false true X true false X 2128968 5618557 11487954 16871388 18023477 54130344 0 0 2128968 5618557 11487954 16871388 18023477 54130344 5502569 48627775 85 1918 26505 251333 638944 918785 0 50 212 5105 152 27890 33409 55082538 4960636 X 0.00000 Support Schedule: Other Income Explanation From time to time, miscellaneous amounts are received during the course of performing the organization's tax-exempt function. 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X X X X false false false false false false false true false Amanda Dakhakhni Program Director 127895 11352 162 3897 8465 151771 Charlotte Stix Head of AI Governance (Apollo) 161845 21369 2494 185708 Marcus Davis CEO 145826 162 4375 25611 175974 Peter Hurford Partial Year Co- CEO 144326 144 4230 12337 161037 Tamay Besiroglu Associate Director (Epoch) 144318 62860 99 7383 214660 Part I, Line 7: Non-Fixed payments not listed above Tamay Besiroglu was issued a $62,860.00 signing bonus. Charlotte Stix was issued a taxable benefit payment for 16,847.25 GBP (21,369.01 USD) to reimburse medical expenses. Konstantin Sietzy board member 357351 contract payments false Abraham Rowe Former COO 74232 service fees false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information Part IV - Business Transactions with Interested Persons - (1) KS serves as an unpaid board member to RP. Konstantin also works as a full time employee to UK AISI, as Deputy Director of Talent and Operations, which RP has various service contracts with totaling $357,350.54 for the 2024 tax year. (2) Abraham Rowe founded Good Structures after he left RP in 2024. RP contracted with Good Structures to provide onboarding support during the 2024 COO transition as well as project management support for our Animal Welfare Department during a staff member's parental leave. Abraham is an employee and paid by Good Structures. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 4 RP added more structure to its board member terms, making them 2 year terms, which begin on June 1st of that year and end on May 31st two years later. In addition, RP added more structure to its named board roles, making them 1 year terms, which also begin on June 1st and end on May 31st of the following year. Finally, RP removed the role of Vice President from the board, as it was redundant with the role of President. 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 of approval by the board of directors during a board meeting or via unanimous approval vote outside of a board meeting (e.g., done electronically over email). 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 disclosed, reviewed and addressed as relevant. Restrictions include TDOKEs recusing themselves from decision-making processes. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a RP's board of directors determines executive (C-Suite) salaries. A committee within the board benchmarks salary data for similar roles at similar nonprofit organizations and ensures RP's C-Suite salaries are within the 25th to 75th percentile of market salaries. This process occurred last 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 last 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. Rethink Priorities UK Ltd Archer Hse Britland Est Northbourne Rd Eastbourne England UK BN22 8PW 981819638 research UK 5430285 136579 Rethink Priorities false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false