Virginia · Nonprofit
Responsible Business Alliance Foundation
Responsible Business Alliance Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,135,000 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($1,105,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Responsible Business Alliance Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of the Foundation is to support RBA's charitable, scientific and educational activities by improving the public's ability to consider social, environmental, and economic responsibility within supply chains to make informed consumer decisions. The Foundation is recognized as a Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and therefore may receive tax-deductible charitable contributions from individuals and corporations. These contributions enable RBA and the Foundation to leverage opportunities for public funding to develop and implement special programs, research projects, tools and other initiatives for public benefit, in the area of responsible mineral sourcing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Initial Audit Fund: The Initial Audit Fund is a voluntary incentive managed by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) designed to encourage smelters or refiners (SORs) to participate in the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process. The Fund offers smelters an incentive for participating in the RMAP by fully paying for the costs of their initial audit. On numerous occasions, the Initial Audit Fund has helped bring a smelter or refiner into the program.
$373,448 spent67% of program spendingBetter Mining Cobalt Program's purpose is to support the continuation of the better mining program in the democratic republic of Congo which collects and analyzes digital responsible sourcing data on mine sites and translates this data into quantifiable improvements on and around those sites.
$78,000 spent$100,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther various Program Service Activities
$61,425 spent$83,470 earned by the program11% of program spendingResponsible Glove Alliance Due Diligence Fund - RGA provides practical implementation guides, as well as tools and training to members on the prevention and remediation of forced labor, to support adherence to the RBA Code of Conduct provision on Freely Chosen Employment.
$32,770 spent$29,250 earned by the program6% of program spendingPact Vocational Program: The RBA Foundation is currently supporting a vocational training program located in the cobalt mining communities in the DRC. Specifically, the program is operating in six communiites and provides vocational skills for at risk youth to provide an alternative to mining, and break the cycle of poverty for recipents and their families.
$10,000 spent$10,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingResponsible recruitment: rba foundation aims to help break the cycle of exploitation common in foreign migrant worker recuitment and employment experiences in the region by transforming the market for ethical business practices and including workers themselves in developing solutions to ongoing challenges.the rba foundation will work to implement a solutions-oriented program, including publicly available education and information, focusing downstream to detect and address forced labor. The project will include additional upstream work to develop the maturity of labor agents and ethical recruitment standards and better educate workers and factory management directly.
Grievance Platform: The Foundation is leading the development of an online cross-industry platform to screen and address grievances linked to smelters and refiners present in global supply chains. The platform provides a record and communication channel for identification, follow-up, and resolution of grievances.
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $555,643.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $2.0M (+34%).
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.
81% of Responsible Business Alliance Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Robert Lederer
CEO
Board chair
Joel Eurich
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $1.1M.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Responsible Business Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money Responsible Business Alliance Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Responsible Business Alliance Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Responsible Business Alliance Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Responsible Business Alliance Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Responsible Business Alliance Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Responsible Business Alliance Foundation
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Responsible Business Alliance · exempt
- Eicc Services LLC · corp_trust
- Beijing EICC MGMT Consultancy · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Responsible Business Alliance Foundation: 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 Responsible Business Alliance Foundation?
- Responsible Business Alliance Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,135,000 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($1,105,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Responsible Business Alliance Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,135,000 in grants to Responsible Business Alliance Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Responsible Business Alliance Foundation?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Responsible Business Alliance Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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