Virginia · Public charity
Rethink Charity
RETHINK CHARITY's mission is to encourage effective altruism by creating initiatives that facilitate interpersonal engagement with the objective of exposing the wider public to altruism projects and energizing those already involved.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2023
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $28,564
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $527,325
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 5
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Rethink Charity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $1.9M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $2.7M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $2.6M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $384k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.
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, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rethink Priorities | $1,258,285 | 3 | 55% |
| Speculative Technologies Inc | $925,013 | 1 | 79% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $801,258 | 3 | 0% |
| Nonlinear Inc | $780,575 | 2 | n/a |
| The Humane League | $595,711 | 3 | 3% |
| The Good Food Institute Inc | $521,661 | 3 | 1% |
| Lead for Farmed Animals | $477,980 | 2 | n/a |
| Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc | $423,418 | 3 | 2% |
| Malaria Consortium US Inc | $349,820 | 4 | 8% |
| Tsinghua Education Foundation Na Inc | $320,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 41 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Rethink Charity supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Founders Pledge Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Every Org · Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative · Humane America Animal Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Daffy Charitable Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Double Up Drive Inc · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40
How this is measured
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About Rethink Charity
- How much does Rethink Charity give?
- Rethink Charity reported 11 itemized grants totaling $1,136,502, out of $1,232,267 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Rethink Charity fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Science & Tech (23%), Animals (17%), International (16%).
- Who are Rethink Charity's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Rethink Priorities ($1.3M), Speculative Technologies Inc ($925k), Givedirectly Inc ($801k).
- Does Rethink Charity fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rethink Charity?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc, Founders Pledge Inc, Good Ventures Foundation.
- Where is Rethink Charity based?
- Rethink Charity is based in VA.
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