Rare
Rare at a glance
In short: Rare gave $275K across 5 grants in 2025 (avg $55K), mostly in California. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $275,382
- -25.3% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 5
- +25.0% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $55,076
- -40.2% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $15,570
- Total assets
- $40,193,342
- +14.5% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- California (53% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
Who Rare funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 5 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Wildaid Inc ($130K). Together the top 5 received $275K.
Grant Size Distribution
21 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 13 grants of 21 (62%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 5 itemized grants.
Cities
How Rare gives
- Giving held roughly steady from 2022 to 2025 (−1%). Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $35K (2021) to $369K (2024). In 2025 it made 5 grants totaling $275K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wildaid Inc San Francisco, CA | Comprehensive assessment and development of a marine protection system plan to strengthen mcs of fisheries and marine conservation, including stakeholder meetings for creation of annual project plans to prioritize recommended actions. | $130,000 |
| Action for Boston Community Development Inc Boston, MA | Grant to Train Solar Technicians in the USA | $112,657 |
| Stanford University Redwood City, CA | Grant to support primary research projects that provide novel insight into how behavioral insights may be applied in driving environmental impacts | $15,570 |
| One Earth Conservation Queensvillage, NY | Grant to test online parrot conservation corps training to teach people about conservation methods in response to declining wild parrot populations through changing attitudes. | $10,000 |
| Northeastern University Research Boston, MA | Grant to support primary research projects that provide novel insight into how behavioral insights may be applied in driving environmental impacts | $7,155 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $40,193,342 | $42,894,830 | $38,546,039 | $275,382 | 5 | $753,388 |
| 2024 | $35,089,126 | $33,556,901 | $37,155,372 | $368,628 | 4 | $625,505 |
| 2023 | $40,527,597 | $30,861,609 | $32,077,336 | $154,489 | 4 | $418,903 |
| 2022 | $38,323,972 | $25,340,932 | $31,019,368 | $277,032 | 5 | $231,558 |
| 2021 | $47,172,711 | $37,625,413 | $28,280,886 | $34,527 | 3 | $129,235 |
| 2020 | $36,999,177 | $22,917,080 | $25,180,754 | $174,128 | 2 | $223,832 |
| 2019 | $41,397,121 | $37,606,393 | $26,926,873 | $310,916 | 3 | $790,301 |
About Rare
Based on IRS filings
Rare is a public charity focused on Environment & Animals, based in Arlington, VA. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $40.2M in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 5 grants totaling $275K. Net investment income was $753K.
Focus Areas
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
Rare is led by Brett Jenks, CEO since 2023 (on filings since 2019); 16 of 40 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Brett Jenks
CEO
President & CEO → CEO, 2023
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$444K (2019) → $597K (2025)
Caleb McClennen
President
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$96K (2023) → $413K (2025)
Raquel Tirona
Managing Director
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$177K (2022) → $190K (2025)
Ed Soule
Trustee
On filings since 2019
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Scott M. Amero
Trustee
Chairman → Trustee, 2020
On filings since 2019
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Steve Gaines
Trustee
Secretary → Trustee, 2020
On filings since 2019
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sven Lindblad
Trustee
On filings since 2019
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Elke Weber
Trustee
On filings since 2020
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amy Margerum Berg
Trustee
On filings since 2021
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
John Marshall
Trustee
On filings since 2021
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Karen Toliver
Trustee
On filings since 2021
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lincoln Brown
Trustee
On filings since 2021
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Carlos Alvarado Quesada
Trustee
On filings since 2023
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Guilherme Azevedo
Trustee
On filings since 2023
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Heather McTeer Toney
Trustee
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jamie Staugler
Trustee
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Nancy E. Dempze
Trustee
On filings since 2024
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amaechi Ndili
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kathlyn Tan
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Maud Welles
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
2.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Anna T. Bartlett
Vice President
Vice President, Ind. Giving & Board Relations → Vice President, 2020
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$169K (2019) → $299K (2025)
Esteban Chavarria
Vice President
Vice President Finance & Accounting → Vice President, 2020
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$166K (2019) → $220K (2025)
Niels Crone
COO
Chief Operating Officer → COO, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$146K (2019) → $348K (2025)
Caryn Perrelli
Senior Vice President
Vice President → Senior Vice President, 2023
On filings since 2020
40 hrs/week
$235K (2020) → $291K (2025)
Barbara Betts
Vice President
On filings since 2021
40 hrs/week
$198K (2021) → $221K (2025)
Brandon Schauer
Senior Vice President
Vice President → Senior Vice President, 2023
On filings since 2021
40 hrs/week
$185K (2021) → $283K (2025)
Andrew Simpson
Vice President
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$212K (2022) → $241K (2025)
Renee Carstensen
Senior Vice President
Vice President → Senior Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$198K (2022) → $257K (2025)
Kevin Green
Senior Vice President
Vice President → Senior Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$191K (2023) → $208K (2025)
Anne Schouw
Chief Development Officer
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$289K (2025)
Anthony Chatwin
Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$220K (2025)
Katherine Schweigart
Senior Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$214K (2025)
Tracy Patil
Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$228K (2025)
Dorothy Batten
Vice Chair
Trustee → Chair, 2020
Chair → Vice Chair, 2024
On filings since 2019
3.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lizanne Galbreath
Co-Chair
Trustee → Treasurer, 2023
Treasurer → Co-Chair, 2024
On filings since 2019
3.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Randy Brown
Treasurer
Trustee → Treasurer, 2024
On filings since 2019
3.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sarah Stein Greenberg
Secretary
Trustee → Secretary, 2023
On filings since 2019
3.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Bruce Boyd
Co-Chair
Trustee → Co-Chair, 2024
On filings since 2021
3.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
John De Wet
CFO
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (24)
- Former: Alice Farmer (2019–2024) — Trustee
- Former: Avi S. Garbow (2019–2024) — Trustee
- Former: Karen Ziffer (2019–2024) — Former Chief Development Officer
- Former: Mehrdad Baghai (2019–2024) — Trustee
- Former: Kathy Baird (2021–2024) — Trustee
- Former: Tracy Nugent (2022–2024) — Vice President
- Former: Michael Bonney (2019–2023) — Trustee
- Former: Nancy Mackinnon (2019–2023) — Trustee
- Former: Tom Patterson (2019–2023) — Vice Chair
- Former: Amanda Paulson (2019–2022) — Treasurer
- Former: Jose Roberto Marinho (2019–2022) — Trustee
- Former: Stephen Box (2019–2022) — Former Managing Director
- Former: Paula Caballero (2020–2022) — Managing Director
- Former: Cynthia Mayoral (2019–2021) — Vice President
- Former: Dale Galvin (2019–2021) — Former Managing Director
- Former: Manuel Bueno Vera (2019–2020) — Senior Director
- Former: Paul Butler (2019–2020) — Trustee
- Former: Valeria Orlando (2020) — Vice President
- Former: Brian Ullman (2019) — Vice President, Marketing & Communications
- Former: Caryn Perrelli Trivett (2019) — Vice President & Talent
- Former: David McCormick (2019) — Trustee
- Former: Jan Portman (2019) — Trustee
- Former: Martha Piper (2019) — Managing Director & Global Solutions
- Former: Vadim Nikitine (2019) — Trustee
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $597K, to Brett Jenks (CEO). 16 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Rare
How much does Rare give each year?
Rare gave $275K across 5 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $369K across 4 grants.
What is Rare's typical grant size?
Rare's median grant in 2025 was $15,570, and its average grant was $55,076, across 5 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990.
Where does Rare give grants?
Rare gives mostly in California: 53% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The next largest state was Massachusetts (44%). The most frequent recipient cities were Boston, MA (2 grants).
Does Rare give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 5 grants with a stated purpose on Rare's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support.
Who are Rare's largest grantees?
Rare's largest 2025 grantees include Wildaid Inc ($130,000), Action for Boston Community Development Inc ($112,657) and Stanford University ($15,570), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 94% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Rare?
Rare reported $40.2M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $42.9M.
What is Rare?
Rare is a public charity focused on Environment & Animals, based in Arlington, VA. It holds $40.2M in total assets as of 2025.
What is Rare's EIN?
Rare's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 23-7380563. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS June 30, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS June 7, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS September 27, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS August 13, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS October 14, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS August 7, 2020)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS August 3, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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