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John B Rust Charity Trust at a glance

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John B Rust Charity Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$130kHealth$96kHousing & Shelter$84kCrime & Legal$30kEducation$28kYouth Development$20kCommunity Improvement$17kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAPPYBOTTOMS$35,000
HILLCREST MINISTRIES$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEAD TO READ INC: $7k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $52k → 8%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $35k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $24k → 15%GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15k → 15%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.
03Its 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
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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2
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
3
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
4
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.

Community Improvement
5
Housing Services of Kansas City Inc

The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.

Housing & Shelter
6
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
7
Brain Injury Assn of Ks & Greater Kc

To provide ongoing brain injury advocacy, education and resources

Health
8
Interfaith Housing and Community Service

To assist low-income homeowners of south central kansas to repair/rehabilitate their homes; to assist qualified low-income residents of south central kansas to purchase homes or to build low-cost homes for these residents; and to provide…

Community Improvement
9
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
10
Kansas City Community Land Trust

Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.

Housing & Shelter
11
Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc

To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.

Religion
12
Hope Faith Ministries Inc

Hope Faith Ministries Inc. works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individ

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grandview Assistance Program; the most unlike its peers is Happybottoms. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAPPYBOTTOMS: $59,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMSLIFE UNLIMITED INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesLIFE UNLIMITED INCGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15,000 · Human ServicesGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAMLEAD TO READ INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $25,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITYIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEMPOWERING THE PARENT TO EMPOWER: $10,000 · OtherEMPOWERING THE PARENT TO EMPOWERAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $26,000 · HealthAdventHealth…Welcome House Inc: $17,600 · HealthWelcome Hous…UMKC FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationUMKC FOUNDA…BRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $20,000 · EducationBRIGHT FUTU…HILLCREST MINISTRIES INC: $39,000 · ReligionHILLCREST …Legal Aid of Western Missouri: $30,000 · Crime & LegalFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$133,000Other$117,500Health$43,600Education$41,000Religion$39,000Crime & Legal$30,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $59,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE UNLIMITED INC: $52,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES INC: $39,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $26,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $17,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…J B Reynolds Foundati…Health Forward Founda…The Sunderland Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…John W and Effie E Sp…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Sherman Family Fo…John J Sullivan Jr Fo…The Kansas City Royal…The H & R Block Found…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 John B Rust Charity Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John B Rust Charity Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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