· Private foundation
Margaret Sue Rust Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rockport Fulton Education Foundation | $100,000 |
| COUASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Texas Maritime Museum | $40,000 |
| Rockport Center for the Arts | $40,000 |
| South TX Council Boy Scouts of America | $25,000 |
| ROCKPORT FULTON GOOD SAMARITANS | $25,000 |
| ROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS COALITION ARANSAS COUNTY | $25,000 |
| ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER | $25,000 |
| COASTAL BEND DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY CENTER | $15,000 |
| Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend | $15,000 |
| CAMP ARANZAZU | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $10,000 |
| OPERATION SANTA CLAUS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- RFROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +75%
- TATHE ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING7× · 2017–2023 · $194k · revenue +25%
- RCROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT7× · 2018–2024 · $167k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- DMDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +113%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ACARANSAS COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +23%
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.
Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.
Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.
Support and develop the social welfare and improvement of Aransas County through education, training, resident, business and governenment involvement, leadership development and infrastructure enhancement ans assisting the community with…
Promotion of commerce in panola county texas
Fire and emergency medical services
We provide volunteer ems assistance to county emergency services
To provide ambulance services to the haskell county area.
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
Striving to ensure the people of Navarro County & beyond are provided quality healthcare.
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aransas County Medical Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Fulton Mansion. 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.
22 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. 22 of the 56 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 ROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARINC ↗
- Who funds THE ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE RFT ↗
- Who funds AIM HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ARANSAS COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Lamar Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds Rockport Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds HALO FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT WARRIORS UNITED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FULTON MANSION ↗
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: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · Nystrom Family Foundation · Barrow Foundation · Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Marguerite Sours Foundation · Estill Foundation · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · The Onestar Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial 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 Margaret Sue Rust 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.
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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