· Private foundation
Jerry & Brenda Rush Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $79,500 |
| SCHREIBER CENTER | $6,000 |
| HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $5,364 |
| GREENSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| YOUTH BENEFIT ELEMENTARY | $3,509 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +141% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +40%
- FVFALLSTON VOLUNTEER FIRE & AMBULANCE3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +40%
- HWHOUSING WORKS INC3× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- CBCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BABEL AIR UNITED METHODISTone grant, 2022 · $9k
- THTHE HIGHLANDSone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
To provide home health and hospice services to persons in grays harbor and pacific counties who need assistance to remain active and independent within their own home.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
To promote affordable healthcare.
Dedication to maintaining and improving the health of the people in its communities through an integrated health delivery system that provides high quality care to all.
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
The organization provides mental healthcare to the communities in harford county, maryland.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FALLSTON VOLUNTEER FIRE & AMBULANCE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY CONGREGATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY KIDS RUNNING SERIES ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SOCIETY FOR SIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dresher Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jerry & Brenda Rush Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerry & Brenda Rush Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Reach Inc: 49% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc: 14% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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