How much does Rivian Foundation give?

Rivian Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $6,580,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

What does Rivian Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (76%), Philanthropy (8%), Arts & Culture (5%).

Who are Rivian Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: The Wildlands Conservancy ($900k), Resources Legacy Fund ($850k), Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc ($500k).

Does Rivian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rivian Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Resources Legacy Fund, The Nature Conservancy.

Where is Rivian Foundation based?

Rivian Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Rivian Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 54
Grants FY2025: 39
Organizations funded FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $900,000
States reached, FY2025: 20
Total assets, FY2025: $656M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Environment$9.8MPhilanthropy$1.0MArts & Culture$600kInternational$550kHuman Services$340kFood & Nutrition$140kHealth$125kYouth Development$80kOther$0

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, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Wildlands Conservancy	$900,000	1	7%
Resources Legacy Fund	$850,000	1	n/a
Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc	$500,000	2	4%
Conservation Lands Foundation	$400,000	2	4%
The Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust Inc	$370,000	2	21%
Trout Unlimited Inc	$300,000	2	0%
Rare	$300,000	1	1%
Maasai Wilderness Conservation Fund	$300,000	1	23%
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks	$300,000	2	2%
The Film Collaborative Inc	$250,000	1	2%

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All grantees of Rivian Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Wildlands Conservancy	$900,000	1	7%
Resources Legacy Fund	$850,000	1	n/a
Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc	$500,000	2	4%
Conservation Lands Foundation	$400,000	2	4%
The Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust Inc	$370,000	2	21%
Trout Unlimited Inc	$300,000	2	0%
Rare	$300,000	1	1%
Maasai Wilderness Conservation Fund	$300,000	1	23%
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks	$300,000	2	2%
The Film Collaborative Inc	$250,000	1	2%
International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc	$250,000	2	2%
Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc	$250,000	1	0%
The Surfrider Foundation	$200,000	2	1%
Ecology Center	$180,000	2	1%
The Greening of Detroit	$180,000	2	2%
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG	$140,000	2	3%
Northern Chumash Tribal Council	$140,000	2	5%
Mad Agriculture	$140,000	2	3%
Georgia Conservancy Inc	$140,000	2	6%
Oregon Natural Desert Association	$140,000	2	3%
RESOLVE Incorporated	$125,000	1	5%
Nature for All	$120,000	2	2%
Greening Youth Foundation Inc	$120,000	2	n/a
Harlem Grown Inc	$100,000	2	1%
Billion Oyster Project Inc	$100,000	2	1%
Prairie Rivers Network	$100,000	2	3%
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project	$100,000	2	4%
Cumberland River Compact Inc	$100,000	2	1%
CalWild	$100,000	2	6%
Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy	$100,000	2	3%
Shelterwood Collective	$100,000	2	2%
South River Watershed Alliance	$80,000	2	16%
Urban Roots Mn	$80,000	2	2%
Friends of the High Line Inc	$70,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Owyhee	$60,000	2	11%
Friends of Trees	$60,000	1	n/a
Ecology Action Center	$60,000	2	5%
Ocmulgee National Park & Preserve Initiative Inc	$60,000	1	9%
Laguna Canyon Foundation	$60,000	2	2%
Bronx River Alliance Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust	$50,000	1	1%
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Openlands	$50,000	1	n/a
Treepeople Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
TreeFolks Inc	$40,000	1	2%
Wylde Center Inc	$40,000	1	2%
Soul Trak Outdoors	$40,000	2	7%
Clark Fork Coalition	$40,000	1	n/a
Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance	$40,000	1	6%
Coast Salish Youth Coalition	$30,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($980k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rivian Foundation 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 40.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA43.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Western Conservation Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · National Park Foundation · Wyss Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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 Rivian Foundation

How much does Rivian Foundation give?: Rivian Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $6,580,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Rivian Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (76%), Philanthropy (8%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are Rivian Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: The Wildlands Conservancy ($900k), Resources Legacy Fund ($850k), Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc ($500k).
Does Rivian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rivian Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Resources Legacy Fund, The Nature Conservancy.
Where is Rivian Foundation based?: Rivian Foundation is based in CA.