How much did RETHINK CHARITY grant in FY2023?

RETHINK CHARITY reported 11 grants totaling $1,232,267 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is RETHINK CHARITY based?

RETHINK CHARITY is based in VA.

RETHINK CHARITY

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· Public charity

RETHINK CHARITY

RETHINK CHARITY's mission is to encourage effective altruism by creating initiatives that facilitate interpersonal engagement with the objetive of exposing the wider public to altruism projects and energizing those already involved.

$1.2M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$527k

Largest

01What you fund

0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Human Services$2.1MAnimals$1.0MScience & Tech$969kInternational$735kEducation$611kHealth$531kFood & Nutrition$522kEnvironment$302kArts & Culture$253kOther$1.8M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

conductingsciencesscientific advanceearly stagestage scienceresearch

2019

evidenceactknowpovertydelivermeasureensure

2020

flourendchangehumanitariumanimalsenvironmentalfistula

2021

humanitarianidentifyendenvironmentalchangesustainableanimals

2022

corporationsafetyresearch

2023

tefnabuild resilienceestablishededucationalchinaallfedresilience global

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k4 grants · $28k
$10k–50k4 grants · $122k
$50k–250k1 grant · $139k
$250k+2 grants · $847k

$28,564

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

NONLINEAR INC$527,325
TSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$320,000
MALARIA CONSORTIUM US$138,794
CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM US$45,555
SECUREBIO INC$36,922
ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS$28,564
VIDA PLENA$11,027
RETHINK PRIORITIES$8,285
ANIMAL ETHICS$7,386
ALLFED INSTITUTES$7,352
EVERY ORG$5,292

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

$6.8M · 24 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +164% since the first grant, against +106% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.8M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+164%

+106%

Still filing today

83%

92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

RP
Rethink Priorities
3× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +851% · 55% of their budget
GiveDirectly Inc
3× · 2019–2021 · $801k · revenue +302%
TH
The Humane League
3× · 2019–2021 · $596k · revenue +294%

Funded once

PI
PARPA INC
one grant, 2022 · $925k · revenue -7% · 79% of their budget
SP
SPARTZ PHILANTHROPIES
one grant, 2022 · $253k · 41% of their budget
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AHLIgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $188k · revenue +939%

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.

Global Impact Investing Network Inc

Increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet.

Philanthropy

Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education

International Aids Vaccine

Translate scientific discoveries into affordable, globally accessible public health solutions

International

E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment

Accion International

Accion is a global nonprofit on a mission to create a fair and inclusive economy. we are a leading early-stage investor in fintech for inclusion and experts in the digital transformation of financial service providers, with decades of…

International

Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

World Resources Institute

To create change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive.

International

International Peace Institute Inc

The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…

International

Responsible Innovation Labs Inc

Responsible Innovation Labs is a coalition of leading investors and technology executives who recognize the importance of responsible innovation and the need for a more rigorous approach to tackling the challenges and opportunities of this…

Science & Tech

Climate Breakthrough Inc

To make an outsized impact in resolving the climate crisis by freeing leaders to translate their boldest ideas into transformative climate action that swiftly and justly closes the gap between the world today and a sustainable future.

Human Services

Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst

The caia association is a global credentialing body for alternative investments, representing professionals in over 95 countries. it upholds high ethical standards, offers the chartered alternative investment analyst designation, and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is New Incentives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/42

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,523

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

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/37

Grantees still filing

29/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$2,082,426Other$2,900,957Animals$1,017,188Science & Tech$969,011International$735,392Education$610,948Health$530,979

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.

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.

Effective Ventures Foundation USA IncCA37.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Founders Pledge Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Humane America Animal Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Every Org · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Double Up Drive Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

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 organisation RETHINK CHARITY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PARPA INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue held over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 872825132 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PARPA INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rethink Charity?

Find your warmest path to Rethink Charity through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RETHINK CHARITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rethink Charity?

More from the funding graph

RETHINK CHARITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rethink Charity?

More from the funding graph