Rainwater Charitable Foundation Revenue and Competitors

The Rainwater Charitable Foundation (RCF) is a private family foundation based in Fort Worth, Texas. Founded by Richard E. Rainwater in 1991, RCF began as a nonprofit focused on funding initiatives centered around children, believing that high-quality education can transform their lives and the lives of their families. In 2009, RCF founded the Tau Consortium, to commission world-class research and drug discovery programs to accelerate treatments of tauopathies, a class of neurodegenerative diseases including supranuclear palsy and Alzheimer’s Disease. Today, RCF’s education grant focuses on funding the betterment of school-based work and systems, with the goals of affecting change in both neighborhoods and society as a whole. Additionally, since its founding of the Tau Consortium, RCF has invested approximately $100 million providing about 65% of all US philanthropic funding for tau-related research as well as created the Richard Rainwater Prize Program to reward innovative thinking and approaches to treatment. RCF is proud to be a leader in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases. Rainwatercharitablefoundation.org Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RCFNeuro