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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: March 2026 Expires: March 2028

Rainforest Action Network

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards
(415) 398-4404
425 Bush Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA, 94108
https://ran.org/
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Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

Rainforest Action Network meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
"to preserve forests, protect the climate, and uphold human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns."

Year, State Incorporated:
1987, CA

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) reports that it works to implement community-led solutions that create and maintain healthy forests, a stable climate, a wild biodiversity, and protect indigenous populations' human rights. The goal of RAN's climate and energy campaign is to research the financial flows and insurance companies behind fossil fuel production, in order to influence and change institutional policies and practices. Additionally, with the organization's forests and finance campaign, RAN seeks to protect the largest tropical forests in the world by supporting indigenous rights, working with local communities in these forested areas, and engaging in activism to reform corporate actions and financial systems that may be linked to climate emissions, deforestation, forest degradation, and human rights abuses. The organization also reports that through their community action grants program, RAN distributes direct funds to grassroots organizations that work to strengthen the capacity of indigenous communities and local activist efforts in protecting their rights and the environment they live in.

For the year ended June 30, 2025, Rainforest Action Network's program expenses were:

Forests and finance $5,310,443
Climate and energy $2,880,590
Other program services $2,452,570
Total Program Expenses $10,643,603

Chief Executive
Ginger Cassady, Executive Director

Compensation*
$248,988

Chair of the Board
Avi Mahaningtyas

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Climate Change and Environment Policy Consultant, The Samdhana Institute

Board Size
10

Paid Staff Size
63

*2024 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Invitations to fund raising events, Grant proposals, Internet, Planned giving arrangements, Membership appeals

RAN incurred joint costs of $97,311 for informational materials and activities that included fundraising materials. Of those costs $56,801 was allocated to fundraising expenses and $40,510 was allocated to program expenses.

Fundraising costs were 16% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $9,246,181, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Rainforest Action Network's audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2025.

Source of Funds
Contributions $5,271,314
Foundations $3,520,319
In-kind contributions $454,548
Investment income $363,759
Miscellaneous income $2,393
Total Income $9,612,333

Programs: 80% Fundraising: 12% Administrative: 8%

Total Income $9,612,333
Total expenses: $13,227,642
  Program expenses $10,643,603
  Fundraising expenses $1,522,559
  Administrative expenses $1,061,480
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $-3,615,309
Beginning Net Assets $13,301,498
Other Changes In Net Assets $161,110
Ending Net Assets $9,847,299
Total Liabilities $1,205,235
Total Assets $11,052,534

Note 1: As noted in the financial section above, "other changes in net assets" refers to a change in unamortized discount.

Note 2: According to the organization's audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2025, RAN received in-kind contributions totaling $454,548 in the form of advertising services.

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Report completed by:
BBB Wise Giving Alliance