Chalearn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453085009
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5103292527
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,485
- Expenses
- $97,181
- Assets
- $196,035
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sergio Escalera (Vice-president, Director)
- Isabelle Guyon (President)
People named in this filing
- Kristin Bennett (Treasurer, Director)
- Anne-Catherine Letournel (Secretary, Director)
- Sergio Escalera (Vice-president, Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educate the public with scientific competitions and related events
What it reported doing in 2025
FAIR UNIVERSE: This is a program in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley Labs: https://fair-universe.lbl.gov/. The collaboration is building a large-compute-scale AI platform for the hosting of large scientific datasets, models, and machine learning competitions to drive forward discoveries in high energy physics and cosmology. The initial focus is on discovering and minimizing systematic uncertainties in High Energy Physics through a sequence of challenges that will bring together researchers across physics and machine learning. ChaLearn sponsors a PhD student and a freelance engineer. The expenses this include the salary of the PhD student (via a donation made to Université Paris-Saclay), and prizes and travel awards given to challenge participants and organizers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the available information about grant readiness state registration leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.8%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.8% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.