How much does Rainforest Trust give?

Rainforest Trust reported 12 itemized grants totaling $4,935,246, out of $37,740,034 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Rainforest Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (57%), Animals (25%), Philanthropy (16%).

Who are Rainforest Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rewild ($4.1M), The Wolf Creek Operating Foundation ($4.0M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($3.6M).

Does Rainforest Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rainforest Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, Conservation International Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Where is Rainforest Trust based?

Rainforest Trust is based in VA.

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Virginia · Public charity

Rainforest Trust

RAINFOREST TRUST saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

$38M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 17%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $4.9M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $431,610
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,065,888
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $122M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Rainforest Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	11	$4.9M	9%
FY2024	12	$3.8M	17%
FY2023	12	$4.8M	58%
FY2022	12	$1.8M	33%
FY2021	11	$4.8M	73%
FY2020	2	$20k	50%
FY2019	7	$4.4M	57%
FY2018	3	$164k	67%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$14MAnimals$6.4MPhilanthropy$4.0MRecreation & Sports$338kEducation$209kScience & Tech$19k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rewild	$4,121,328	5	11%
The Wolf Creek Operating Foundation	$4,000,000	1	42%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$3,609,485	5	0%
Panthera Corporation	$2,333,083	5	3%
Rare	$1,983,388	3	2%
Ktk-Belt Inc	$1,910,328	5	62%
Nature and Culture International	$1,292,729	2	8%
Natura Bolivia Foundation	$1,016,136	2	21%
Gorilla Rehabilitation Conservation Education (Grace) Center Inc	$1,006,071	3	36%
Conservation International Foundation	$775,054	1	0%

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All grantees of Rainforest Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rewild	$4,121,328	5	11%
The Wolf Creek Operating Foundation	$4,000,000	1	42%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$3,609,485	5	0%
Panthera Corporation	$2,333,083	5	3%
Rare	$1,983,388	3	2%
Ktk-Belt Inc	$1,910,328	5	62%
Nature and Culture International	$1,292,729	2	8%
Natura Bolivia Foundation	$1,016,136	2	21%
Gorilla Rehabilitation Conservation Education (Grace) Center Inc	$1,006,071	3	36%
Conservation International Foundation	$775,054	1	0%
American Bird Conservancy	$450,797	3	2%
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US Inc	$443,494	3	2%
Para la Naturaleza Inc	$388,870	3	1%
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc	$370,183	3	2%
African Parks Foundation of America	$337,848	1	1%
Haiti National Trust Inc	$210,528	3	100%
Carnegie Institution of Washington	$200,000	1	0%
Legado Inc	$134,621	1	n/a
Turtle Conservancy	$126,180	3	5%
International Conservation Caucus Foundation	$97,000	5	1%
World Resources Institute	$90,000	1	0%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$85,175	2	0%
Zoological Society of San Diego	$78,991	2	0%
Mongabay Org Corp	$40,000	2	0%
Int'L Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - US	$30,375	1	4%
Alliance for Tompotika Conservation	$20,000	1	6%
Resolve Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Wild Forests and Fauna	$19,833	1	28%
Duke University	$19,468	1	0%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$10,000	1	n/a
Global Conservation	$10,000	1	1%
University of Wisconsin Madison	$9,000	1	n/a
Island Conservation	$6,950	1	0%
International Crane Foundation Inc	$6,790	1	0%
Zoo Outreach Organisation	$5,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Rainforest Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Conservation International Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Geographic Society · Resources Legacy Fund · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Marin Community Foundation · Bobolink Foundation · Allen Family Philanthropies · Weeden Foundation · Arcus Foundation · California Community Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Rainforest Trust

How much does Rainforest Trust give?: Rainforest Trust reported 12 itemized grants totaling $4,935,246, out of $37,740,034 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rainforest Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (57%), Animals (25%), Philanthropy (16%).
Who are Rainforest Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rewild ($4.1M), The Wolf Creek Operating Foundation ($4.0M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($3.6M).
Does Rainforest Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rainforest Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, Conservation International Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Rainforest Trust based?: Rainforest Trust is based in VA.