Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Verra
Verra (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,017 to it, the largest being RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ($872,793). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Verra does
Mission
Verra drives transformational action on climate change and sustainable development through high-integrity standards that mobilize finance and deliver real impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
VCS Program: The Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program certifies projects that reduce and remove greenhouse gas emissions. Projects undergo a rigorous development and assessment process before applying for registration with the VCS Program. Projects are issued Verified Carbon Units which they can use to finance their activities. Under the VCS Program, Verra also operates the Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ Framework that enables jurisdictional REDD+ programs and nested projects to account for and verify their forest-related emission reduction activities.Continued in Schedule O
$27,934,122 spent$27,551,050 earned by the program95% of program spendingCCBS Program: The Climate Community and Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Program certifies projects that simultaneously address climate change, support local communities and smallholders, and conserve biodiversity. Many land-based projects register in both the CCBS Program and the VCS Program. These projects include reforestation, afforestation, vegetation, forest restoration, agroforestry, and sustainable agriculture projects.
$1,217,752 spent$1,198,385 earned by the program4% of program spendingPlastics Waste Reduction Standard Program: The Plastic Waste Reduction Standard Program (Plastic Program) enables the consistent accounting, independent auditing and crediting of new or scaled-up waste collection and recycling projects. Projects are issued Plastic Credits which they can use to sustain and/or scale up their operations. The program seeks to catalyze socially-responsible waste recovery and recycling efforts around the world.
$189,366 spent$186,354 earned by the program1% of program spendingSD VISta Program: The Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) is a framework for assessing and reporting on the sustainable development benefits of project-based activities. It helps unlock new sources of finance to support and scale up high-impact efforts that help advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2025, we focused our efforts in the SD VISta Program around operationalizing version 1.0 of the Nature Framework. Early in the year, we welcomed applications from validation/verification bodies (VVBs) to audit Nature Framework projects. We also implemented a market-leading digital-first approach to project registration when we officially opened the formal registration process to our Nature Framework pilot projects. We closed out the year with the exciting news that the Nature Framework certification process will open to all projects on January 1, 2026. Scope 3 Standard Program: In 2024, Verra advanced work to develop a Scope 3 Standard Program which will help companies address their Scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 emissions often are most of a company's emissions and are therefore critical to reduce. The program is well-suited to drive…
$119,403 spent$117,504 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,460,643.
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 $27M to $50M (+87%).
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 23% · 2018 0% · 2019 12% · 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of Verra’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Mandy Rambharos
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Marc Stuart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Verra’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
Verra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Verra.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 72% · 2021 60% · 2022 68% · 2023 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
Verra draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Verra is better cushioned than half of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Verra
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Verra: 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 Verra?
- Verra (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,017 to it, the largest being RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ($872,793). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Verra have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,547,017 in grants to Verra, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Verra?
- RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $872,793 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Verra 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.
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 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing