Public Benefit : Research and Public Policy Institutions
The Ayn Rand Institute
The center for the advancement of Objectivism
Rating
Income Statement (FYE 09/2007)
Contact Information
The Ayn Rand Institute
2121 Alton Parkway
Suite 250
Irvine, CA 92606
tel: (949) 222-6550
fax: (949) 222-6558
EIN: 22-2570926
Leadership (FYE 09/2007)
| Name | Title | Compensation | % of Expenses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yaron Brook | President, Executive Director (The person identified as holding the highest position of management, and therefore who would normally be responsible for carrying out the mission of the charity and leading the organization on a day-to-day basis.) | $348,398 | 5.93% | |
| Other Salaries of Note | ||||
| Debi Ghate | Secretary (Using information reported on an organization's most recent Form 990, we include as compensation an individual's salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and other allowances. We do not include contributions to benefit plans or compensation deferred to a future date.) | $123,684 | 2.10% | |
| Onkar Ghate | Dean of OAC (Using information reported on an organization's most recent Form 990, we include as compensation an individual's salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and other allowances. We do not include contributions to benefit plans or compensation deferred to a future date.) | $107,002 | 1.82% | |
Donor Privacy Policy
YES, this charity has a written donor privacy policy.
Mission
The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) works to introduce young people to Ayn Rand's novels, to support scholarship and research based on her ideas, and to promote the principles of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism to the widest possible audience. ARI seeks to spearhead a cultural renaissance that will reverse the anti-reason, anti-individualism, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist trends in today's culture. The major battleground in this fight for reason and capitalism is the educational institutions-high schools and, above all, the universities, where students learn the ideas that shape their lives. Ayn Rand's philosophy-known as Objectivism-holds that historical trends are the inescapable product of philosophy.
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