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Chalearn

EIN 45-3085009 · San Francisco, CA

Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.

LegitimacyPassesRegistration and standingFinancial healthStrong100 out of 100GovernanceNot ratedThe short tax form does not cover thisImpact evidenceDescribes programsHow well its results are evidenced

What it says it does

Educate the public with scientific competitions and related events

Income
$180,485
Spending
$97,181
Reserves
24.2 months of spending
Largest source of income
donations and private grants, 100%

Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate

Financial health

Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 82% of charities in its peer group (education, under $250k).

  • Reserves

    35 of 35

    Spendable reserves would cover 24.2 months of spending.

  • Debt

    20 of 20

    It owes 0% of what it owns.

  • Living within its means

    15 of 15

    Income exceeded spending by 46% of income.

Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate

Governance

This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.

Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate

Impact evidence

Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.

Programs described in its return (4)
  1. $65,330 spent. 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.
  2. $5,371 spent. LAP PROGRAM: The Looking at People (LAP) challenge series in computer vision is organized in collaboration with Universitat Barcelona https://chalearnlap.cvc.uab.cat/. This year we sponsored the Face anti-spoofing, ICCV 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/face-anti-spoofing-challenge/welcome. We also supported the creation and annotations of a new dataset for diadic interactions (work in progress).
  3. $5,779 spent. PAPER REVIEW: This is a program on automated reviews of scientific papers. This year we worked on a paper to help verify that camera-ready papers include corrections agreed upon between authors and reviewers (work in progress). We supported the internships of students.
  4. $6,166 spent. CODALAB COMPETITIONS: This program sponsors the development of competition platforms. This year, we rolled out the new benchmark platform codabench.org, in replacement for Codalab. Together Codalab and Codabench hold a strong position compared to Kaggle and Tianchi: https://mlcontests.com/state-of-competitive-machine-learning-2025. The code is open-sourced: https://github.com/codalab/codalab-competitions/issues. We are editing a book on challenges and benchmarks: https://sites.google.com/chalearn.org/book/home. We supported the editing work.

Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate

Legitimacy checks

  1. Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.

    Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

    Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.

  2. Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.

    Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.

    Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.

  3. Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.

    On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.

    Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.

  4. Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.

    Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.

    Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.

  5. How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.

    Recognized by the IRS since July 2013.

    Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.

  6. Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.

    Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.

    Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.

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