How much does Rare give?

Rare reported 5 itemized grants totaling $275,382, out of $1,942,762 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (66%), Arts & Culture (11%), Animals (8%).

Who are Rare's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wildaid Inc ($370k), University of California Santa Barbara ($225k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($200k).

Does Rare fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rare?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

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Virginia · Public charity

Rare

RARE inspires change so people and nature thrive.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Itemized grants FY2025: 3
Organizations funded FY2024: 67%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $275k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,570
Largest grant, FY2025: $130,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 4; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $40M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Rare funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther

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	4	$260k	50%
FY2024	3	$317k	67%
FY2023	3	$69k	100%
FY2022	4	$181k	50%
FY2021	3	$35k	100%
FY2020	2	$174k	50%
FY2019	3	$311k	67%
FY2018	3	$237k	33%

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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 2024.

Environment$1.2MArts & Culture$199kAnimals$137kFood & Nutrition$136kInternational$105kEducation$34k

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
Wildaid Inc	$370,000	3	2%
University of California Santa Barbara	$225,000	2	n/a
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$200,000	2	0%
Smithsonian Institution	$198,812	2	0%
Int'L Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - US	$161,628	1	21%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$136,788	1	0%
Precision Development Inc	$136,133	1	3%
Action for Boston Community Development Inc	$112,657	1	n/a
Accion International	$80,000	1	0%
Secore International Inc	$50,295	2	2%

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All grantees of Rare by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wildaid Inc	$370,000	3	2%
University of California Santa Barbara	$225,000	2	n/a
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$200,000	2	0%
Smithsonian Institution	$198,812	2	0%
Int'L Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - US	$161,628	1	21%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$136,788	1	0%
Precision Development Inc	$136,133	1	3%
Action for Boston Community Development Inc	$112,657	1	n/a
Accion International	$80,000	1	0%
Secore International Inc	$50,295	2	2%
Northeastern University	$41,411	2	0%
Solar Sister Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Blue Source LLC	$21,750	1	n/a
Cool Effect Inc	$15,680	2	0%
One Earth Conservation	$10,000	1	n/a
Everland LLC	$9,600	1	n/a
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods C/O Melanie Stevenson	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rare supplied at peak.

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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 12.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Rare

How much does Rare give?: Rare reported 5 itemized grants totaling $275,382, out of $1,942,762 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rare fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (66%), Arts & Culture (11%), Animals (8%).
Who are Rare's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wildaid Inc ($370k), University of California Santa Barbara ($225k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($200k).
Does Rare fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rare?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Rare based?: Rare is based in VA.