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Rainforest Trust

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

$38M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$14MAnimals$6.4MPhilanthropy$4.0MRecreation & Sports$338kEducation$209kScience & Tech$19k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $4,935,246 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $37,740,034 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,804,788 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $355k
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.5M
$431,610
Median grant
7
States reached
$122M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,065,888
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL - BOLIVIA$775,054
NATURA BOLIVIA FOUNDATION$771,856
PANTHERA CORPORATION$653,238
GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER$520,726
RARE$431,610
KTK-BELT INC$314,602
DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND$226,479
FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$128,769
NEW VENTURE FUND$20,024
MONGABAY ORG CORP$20,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION (ICCF)$7,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WOLF CREEK OPERATING FOUNDATION: $4.0M → 7%TURTLE CONSERVANCY: $95k → 10%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $685k → 11%KTK-BELT: $719k → 6%PANTHERA CORP: $1.0M → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $1.2M → 28%NATURA BOLIVIA FOUNDATION: $772k → 16%HAITI NATIONAL TRUST INC: $129k → 15%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND: $226k → 13%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER: $521k → 12%AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY: $325k → 6%RARE: $810k → 7%BLUELINE CONSERVATION INCENTIVES: $30k → 7%LEGADO INC: $135k → 9%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $607k → 11%KTK-BELT INC: $395k → 6%PANTHERA CORPORATION: $653k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $1.1M → 28%NATURA BOLIVIA FOUNDATION: $244k → 16%INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE UNITED STATES: $30k → 14%HAITI NATIONAL TRUST INC: $46k → 15%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND: $118k → 13%GORILLA REHABILITATION & CONSERVATION EDUCATION: $263k → 12%AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY: $95k → 6%RARE: $742k → 7%KTK-BELT INC: $372k → 6%PANTHERA CORPORATION: $344k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $500k → 28%CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $200k → 14%HAITI NATIONAL TRUST: $35k → 15%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND: $25k → 13%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER: $222k → 12%WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $65k → 9%AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY: $30k → 6%RARE: $432k → 7%KTK-BELT INC: $315k → 6%PANTHERA CORPORATION: $270k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $428k → 28%INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 9%CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL - BOLIVIA: $775k → 7%KTK-BELT INC: $110k → 6%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $416k → 28%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $338k → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $90k → 14%FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $234k → 14%FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $129k → 14%FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $81k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $33M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$19M · 59% · 42 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

Sub-Saharan Africa$7.8M · 24% · 35 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

East Asia and the Pacific$5.1M · 15% · 27 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$381k · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

South Asia$204k · 1% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$112k · 0% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 20% of Rainforest Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 5% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Rainforest Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 18 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$20M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalScience & TechPhilanthropyEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • REWILD
    5× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +550%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +43%
  • PC
    PANTHERA CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WOLF CREEK OPERATING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $4.0M · revenue -97% · 42% of their budget
  • AP
    AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $338k · revenue 0%
  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rainforest Trust

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

International
2
Natura International Inc

Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…

Public Benefit
3
Fundacion Cordillera Tropical

Conservation of natural resources

International
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
6
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
7
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
8
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
9
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
10
The Nature Conservancy

The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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11
Wildlife Impact

Protect wildlife and ecosystems through research, evidence-based evaluation, capacity development and advocacy.

Animals
12
Ady Gil World Conservation
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Parks Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Wolf Creek Operating Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,529

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REWILD — $4,121,328 · AnimalsREWILDWildlife Conservation Society — $3,609,485 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation SocietyPANTHERA CORPORATION — $2,333,083 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATIONGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC — $1,006,071 · AnimalsGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) C…American Bird Conservancy — $450,797 · AnimalsFRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC — $443,494 · Animals+6 more — $337,136 · AnimalsRARE — $1,983,388 · EnvironmentRAREKTK-BELT INC — $1,910,328 · EnvironmentKTK-BELT INCNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL — $1,292,729 · EnvironmentNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATION…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $775,054 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOU…PARA LA NATURALEZA INC — $388,870 · EnvironmentPARA LA NATURALEZA INC+9 more — $363,803 · Environment+9 moreTHE WOLF CREEK OPERATING FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WOLF CREEK OP…NATURA BOLIVIA FOUNDATION — $1,016,136 · InternationalHAITI NATIONAL TRUST INC — $210,528 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $90,000 · InternationalDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $370,183 · OtherBLUELINE CONSERVATION INCENTIVES — $29,700 · Other+2 more — $19,000 · OtherAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $337,848 · Recreation & SportsCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON — $200,000 · Science & TechDUKE UNIVERSITY — $19,468 · Education
Animals$12,301,394Environment$6,714,172Philanthropy$4,000,000International$1,316,664Other$418,883Recreation & Sports$337,848Science & Tech$200,000Education$19,468

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREWILD — $4,121,328 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE WOLF CREEK OPERATING FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $3,609,485 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION — $2,333,083 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetRARE — $1,983,388 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetKTK-BELT INC — $1,910,328 over 5y, 62% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL — $1,292,729 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetNATURA BOLIVIA FOUNDATION — $1,016,136 over 2y, 21% of budgetGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC — $1,006,071 over 3y, 36% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $775,054 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $450,797 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC — $443,494 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPARA LA NATURALEZA INC — $388,870 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $370,183 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $337,848 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAITI NATIONAL TRUST INC — $210,528 over 3y, 100% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY — $126,180 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $97,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $85,175 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $78,991 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US — $30,375 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRESOLVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR TOMPOTIKA CONSERVATION — $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWILD FORESTS AND FAUNA — $19,833 over 1y, 28% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $19,468 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $6,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $6,790 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gordon E and Betty I …Conservation Internat…Silicon Valley Commun…National Geographic S…Resources Legacy FundThe Pew Charitable Tr…Marin Community Found…Bobolink FoundationAllen Family Philanth…Weeden FoundationArcus FoundationCalifornia Community …
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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Rainforest Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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