California · Nonprofit
Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc
Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($180,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $180k
- Net assets
- $180k
What Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc does
Mission
to provide extraordinary education for talented youth to learn about applying quantitative skills to the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
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.
$98,447 spentof which $750 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,447.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc?
- Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($180,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $180,000 in grants to Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing