· Private foundation
Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KC-ST JOSEPH INC | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| STUDENT U | $20,000 |
| CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS | $20,000 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $20,000 |
| KANSAS CITY DREAM CENTER CO | $20,000 |
| LEVELUP KIDS INC | $20,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS | $20,000 |
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC | $18,000 |
| COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE | $15,000 |
| KC COMMON GOOD INC | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON CITY | $15,000 |
| WILDWOOD OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER INC | $12,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 35% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK3× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +10%
BOOK HARVEST2× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +122%- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC2× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +227%
Funded once
- IHInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Projectone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- CCCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +88%
- NBNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
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…
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…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
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,…
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…
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…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP CLAIRE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Dream Center Co ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE MISSION MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Forget Me Not Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCRAP EXCHANGE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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