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Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$312k
Granted FY2026still arriving
15
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$296kHealth$246kHuman Services$239kFood & Nutrition$188kHousing & Shelter$80kYouth Development$70kArts & Culture$56kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0
02FY2026 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (GREATER KANSAS CITY)$25,000
FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH$25,000
SHAWNEE MISSION MEALS ON WHEELS$25,000
DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC$25,000
INSIGHT HOUSING$25,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCORPORATED$20,000
CHILDREN RISING INC$20,000
EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER$20,000
HARVESTERS-THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$20,000
INSPIRICA INC$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY$20,000
THE ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$20,000
FRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER$20,000
A SAFE PLACE$15,000
SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION$12,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDREN SERVICES: $18k → 9%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $20k → 15%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $15k → 10%INSIGHT HOUSING: $25k → 10%INSIGHT HOUSING: $25k → 10%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KC-ST JOSEPH INC: $25k → 15%LEND A HAND FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 35%.

Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$692k · 17 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
54

Total granted

$692k
$897k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    4× · 2020–2026 · $78k · revenue +10%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2021–2026 · $53k · revenue +2%
  • IH
    Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project
    2× · 2024–2026 · $50k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • NB
    NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC
    one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • MC
    MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -12%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
4
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
5
Crossnore Communities for Children

Crossnore communities for children champions the well being of children and families by fostering innovative change that weaves a fabric of resilience in homes, schools, and communities.

Health
6
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
7
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
8
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
Mentis

Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.

Human Services
12
Compass Family Services

Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fred Finch Youth Center; the most unlike its peers is Shawnee Mission Meals On Wheels Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
41/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $52,500 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKSHAWNEE MISSION MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $45,000 · OtherSHAWNEE MISSION MEALS ON WHEELS INCMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY: $40,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRYINSPIRICA INC: $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (GREATER KANSAS CITY): $25,000 · OtherEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $50,000 · OtherEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTERNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $25,000 · Other+29 more: $462,000 · Other+29 moreDURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC: $45,000 · EducationDURHAM LITERACY …BOOK HARVEST: $42,250 · EducationBOOK HARVESTADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $36,000 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACA…STUDENT U: $33,000 · EducationSTUDENT UMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $20,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING C…BAY AREA URBAN DEBATE COMMISSION: $15,000 · EducationBAY AREA URBAN D…MINDDRIVE INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EducationMINDDRIVE INCORP…DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $10,500 · EducationDonnelly College: $10,000 · EducationPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationLEVELUP KIDS INC: $37,500 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS I…SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $33,000 · HealthSAMUEL U RODGE…CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 · HealthCONTRA COSTA C…The Children's Mercy Hospital: $20,000 · HealthThe Children's…FRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER: $20,000 · HealthFRED FINCH YOU…EL FUTURO INC: $20,000 · HealthEL FUTURO INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…Street Level Health Project: $15,000 · HealthStreet Level H…Bay Area Young Survivors: $15,000 · HealthBay Area Young…Saint Lukes Foundation: $12,000 · HealthSaint Lukes Fo…Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $50,000 · Human ServicesInsight Housin…FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $40,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FO…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARI…MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CRISI…LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLIFEBRIDGE COM…CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $20,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES O…Forget Me Not Childrens Services: $17,500 · Human ServicesForget Me Not …LEND A HAND FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesLEND A HAND FO…HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $77,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $17,500 · Food & NutritionHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterKansas City Dream Center Co: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterCAMP CLAIRE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentWALLTOWN CHILDRENS THEATRE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCYCLES OF CHANGE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON CITY: $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$734,500Education$253,750Health$217,500Human Services$212,500Food & Nutrition$115,000Housing & Shelter$97,500Youth Development$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $77,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $52,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHAWNEE MISSION MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetDURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $42,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT U: $33,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP CLAIRE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL FUTURO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetForget Me Not Childrens Services: $17,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $17,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSCRAP EXCHANGE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWALLTOWN CHILDRENS THEATRE: $15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetStreet Level Health Project: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALPHAPOINTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA URBAN DEBATE COMMISSION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCYCLES OF CHANGE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON CITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBay Area Young Survivors: $15,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDZNOTES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater…Health Forward Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…Greater Kansas City C…Constance M Cooper Ch…Jackson County Commun…William T Kemper Foun…Duke UniversityFairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Synchrony Foundation
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Duke University · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Synchrony Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • The Kennedy Collective Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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