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Rare
RARE inspires change so people and nature thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $368,628 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,508,949 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,140,321 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDAID INC | $202,500 |
| ACCION INTERNATIONAL | $80,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $51,872 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ACCOUNTING | $34,256 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Grants abroad, by region — $963k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: COASTAL LIFELINE - A PROVINCIAL APPROACH TO THE EMPOWERMENT OF FISHER-FARMER COMMUNITIES TO ADOPT NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS IN MOZAMBIQUE.
Stated purpose: BEHAVIOR CAMPAIGNS ALL ROUNDS - COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PHASES 1 AND 2. · SUPPORT THE CONDUCT OF THE BASELINE ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS, GENETICS, AND EDNA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN SELECTED RARE SITES IN EASTERN SAMAR AND SOUTHERN LEYTE, AND ALSO SUPPORT CAPACITY-BUILDING AND LEARNING EXCHANGE ACROSS VARIOUS FACETS OF THE PROJECT. · SUPPORT THE SUBGRANTEE'S ROLE AS LEAD CONVENOR AND ARCHITECT OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT "UNLOCKING BLUE PACIFIC PROSPERITY: NAVIGATING THE VOYAGE FROM CONCEPT TO DESIGN".
Stated purpose: SOLUTION SEARCH: JUDGES' CHOICE WINNER. · SCALING OF COMMUNITY-BASED FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN HONDURAS THROUGH FISH FOREVER. · HONDURAS SEAGRASS AND MANGROVE RESTORATION DIAGNOSIS.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT THE CONDUCT OF MEETINGS/ASSEMBLIES TO INCREASINGLY STRENGTHEN THE MARINE AND COASTAL EXTRACTIVE RESERVES OF PARA, BRAZIL. · STRENGTHENING EXTRACTIVE RESERVES AND TRADITIONAL COASTAL AND MARINE EXTRACTIVE PEOPLES (CONFREM BRASIL), INTENDED TO COVER EXPENSES IN STRENGTHENING ACTIVITIES IN MARANHAO. · SOLUTION SEARCH: PEOPLE'S CHOICE WINNER.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Rare’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, 17% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 3% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WIWILDAID INC2× · 2023–2024 · $240k · revenue +2%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +202%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION2× · 2018–2019 · $199k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IUINT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - USgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $162k · revenue +299%
- WCWildlife Conservation Societygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $137k · revenue +52%
- PDPRECISION DEVELOPMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $136k · revenue +121%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
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.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildaid Inc and the most unlike its peers is Solar Sister Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds PRECISION DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SECORE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOLAR SISTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cool Effect Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC INTEGRATED LIVELIHOODS C/O MELANIE STEVENSON ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Rare 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
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.