Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 220 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,104,449 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($17,056,191). 104 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 220
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) does
Mission
RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization, carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help victims and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and the DoD Safe Helpline.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Victims Services: RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline available by phone (800.656.HOPE) and online in both English (online.rainn.org) and Spanish (rainn.org/es). RAINN also operates the Department of Defense Safe Helpline, services for members of the U.S. military affected by sexual assault, through a contract from DoD. All services are provided free. They are confidential, anonymous, and available 24/7.
$14,169,973 spent$13,296,968 earned by the program65% of program spendingPublic Education: RAINN educates the public about sexual violence, working with national media and the entertainment industry to elevate sexual violence storylines and reach millions of homes. We also operate rainn.org and social media platforms to provide information about sexual violence, connect people to support, and engage with communities about these issues. Through a national speakers bureau and other community activities, RAINN is able to mobilize the public to share important information about preventing and recovering from sexual violence.
$3,102,319 spent14% of program spendingConsulting Services: RAINN works with government agencies, educational institutions, companies and organizations to assist them with building and strengthening their sexual misconduct awareness, prevention and response programming to facilitate healing and to promote safe and healthy communities. Customized programs include hotline services, program assessments, policy and response protocol development, education and training, and best practices certifications.
$3,127,993 spent14% of program spendingPublic Policy: RAINN analyzes, develops, and promotes public policy changes to improve the criminal justice system, bring perpetrators to justice, help victims, and reduce the incidence of sexual violence.
$1,247,683 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,647,968.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $27M (+37%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 14% · 2019 13% · 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2022 14% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Regan Burke
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $342k → $1.2M.
32 of 220 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 220 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 34% · 2019 35% · 2020 24% · 2021 51% · 2022 89% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
35% of Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.0M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 36 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$68.4M
- Department of Justice$12.4M
- National Science Foundation$1.1M
- Department of Commerce$572k
- Department of Homeland Security$559k
- Department of the Interior$396k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)?
- Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 220 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,104,449 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($17,056,191). 104 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) have?
- IRS filings report 220 organizations giving $30,104,449 in grants to Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), 104 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $17,056,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 220 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing