Texas · Private foundation
John B Rust Charity Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations John B Rust Charity Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $45k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $48k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $52k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $45k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $43k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $45k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $42k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Happybottoms | $59,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Life Unlimited Inc | $52,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hillcrest Ministries Inc | $39,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Legal Aid of Western Missouri | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation | $26,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Assistance League of Kansas City | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Umkc Foundation | $21,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bright Futures Fund | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Welcome House Inc | $17,600 | 1 | 2% |
| Grandview Assistance Program | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Happybottoms | $59,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Life Unlimited Inc | $52,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hillcrest Ministries Inc | $39,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Legal Aid of Western Missouri | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation | $26,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Assistance League of Kansas City | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Umkc Foundation | $21,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bright Futures Fund | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Welcome House Inc | $17,600 | 1 | 2% |
| Grandview Assistance Program | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Lead to Read Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John B Rust Charity Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · J B Reynolds Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation
How this is measured
About John B Rust Charity Trust
- How much does John B Rust Charity Trust give?
- John B Rust Charity Trust reported 2 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John B Rust Charity Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (21%).
- Who are John B Rust Charity Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Happybottoms ($59k), Life Unlimited Inc ($52k), Hillcrest Ministries Inc ($39k).
- Does John B Rust Charity Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John B Rust Charity Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John B Rust Charity Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, J B Reynolds Foundation.
- Where is John B Rust Charity Trust based?
- John B Rust Charity Trust is based in TX.
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