· Private foundation
V Kann Rasmussen 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $567k
- $250k+13 grants · $7.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN | $809,532 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY - CAMPERDOWN | $620,268 |
| TRANSITION NETWORK | $549,081 |
| TRANSITION NETWORK | $530,845 |
| URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK | $500,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $496,883 |
| Individual grant recipient | $474,363 |
| CLUB OF ROME | $441,967 |
| CORPORACION MOVILIZATORIO | $437,245 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $370,810 |
| ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY | $300,008 |
| UNIVERSITY OF READING | $244,540 |
| BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY | $242,650 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 56% of grant dollars ($25M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 44% that went abroad ($19M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 44% of all-years giving ($19M)
12 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of V Kann Rasmussen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCarnegie Council Fund Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +5% · 92% of their budget
- TCTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS3× · 2021–2023 · $825k · revenue +49%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $433k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- UDUNVERSIDAD DE MURCIA CAMPUS DE ESPINARDOone grant, 2024 · $837k
- CCCARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $800k · revenue +33% · 45% of their budget
- AAADRIENNE ARSHT-ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION RESILIENCE CENTER SCOWCROFT CENTER FOone grant, 2021 · $499k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
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 next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The partnership for global security (pgs) is a recognized international leader and innovator in nuclear and transnational security policy developing actionable responses to 21st century security challenges by engaging international,…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds Carnegie Council Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds METAFOUNDATION DBA POST CARBON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESENCING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The David Rockefeller Fund Inc · The Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization V Kann Rasmussen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from V Kann Rasmussen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Presencing Institute Inc: 28% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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