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Rare Village Foundation

To fight for cures for rare diseases and empower individuals with rare diseases to live their best lives through local community education, inspiring advocacy, and timely connection to critical research that leads to cures

$3.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2022
75%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$38,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$842,626
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 75% of the organizations Rare Village Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$3.1M96%
FY20228$855k75%
FY20214$1.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$2.5MScience & Tech$2.1MArts & Culture$213kRecreation & Sports$193kReligion$131kEducation$28k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Riaan Research Initiative Inc$1,010,9363n/a
Andelyn Biosciences Inc$599,1522n/a
Finding Hope for FRRS1L$422,4672n/a
Rarebase PBC$213,4003n/a
Northwestern University$192,59150%
Raiden Science Foundation$179,021251%
Perlara Pbc$130,7272n/a
Seattle Children's Hospital$50,00020%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$38,00020%
Drexel University$28,00020%
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All grantees of Rare Village Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Riaan Research Initiative Inc$1,010,9363n/a
Andelyn Biosciences Inc$599,1522n/a
Finding Hope for FRRS1L$422,4672n/a
Rarebase PBC$213,4003n/a
Northwestern University$192,59150%
Raiden Science Foundation$179,021251%
Perlara Pbc$130,7272n/a
Seattle Children's Hospital$50,00020%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$38,00020%
Drexel University$28,00020%
Monoamine Oxidase Deficiency Foundation$27,75027%
Children's Hospital Corporation$10,00020%
Atxpc Foundation Inc$3,4002n/a

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Rare Village Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Rare Village Foundation

How much does Rare Village Foundation give?
Rare Village Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $3,015,227 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Rare Village Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (49%), Science & Tech (41%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are Rare Village Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Riaan Research Initiative Inc ($1.0M), Andelyn Biosciences Inc ($599k), Finding Hope for FRRS1L ($422k).
Does Rare Village Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Rare Village Foundation based?
Rare Village Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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