How much does Margaret Sue Rust Foundation give?

Margaret Sue Rust Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $447,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Margaret Sue Rust Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Education (16%), Human Services (15%).

Who are Margaret Sue Rust Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rockport Fulton Isd Education Foundation Inc ($425k), Rockport-Fulton Good Samarinc ($220k), The Aransas County Council on Aging ($194k).

Does Margaret Sue Rust Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Margaret Sue Rust Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret Sue Rust Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Bend Community Foundation, Ed Rachal Foundation, Nystrom Family Foundation.

Where is Margaret Sue Rust Foundation based?

Margaret Sue Rust Foundation is based in TX.

Margaret Sue Rust Foundation

Margaret Sue Rust Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Margaret Sue Rust Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$448k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$648kEducation$555kHuman Services$507kRecreation & Sports$373kPhilanthropy$320kYouth Development$281kHealth$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kOther$0

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k13 grants · $290k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 33 repeat orgs$453k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+22%

Still filing today

39%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

RF
ROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +75%
RC
ROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT
7× · 2018–2024 · $167k · revenue +72%
RL
ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER
4× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +140%

Funded once

DM
DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +113%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $50k
AC
ARANSAS COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES INC
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +23%

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.

04Its 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.

Animal Friends of Port Aransas Inc

Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.

Animals

South Brazos County Fire Department

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.

Public Safety & Disaster

Corsicana Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.

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Rockport-Fulton Chamber Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture

Panola County Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of commerce in panola county texas

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Atascocita Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire and emergency medical services

—

Bastrop County First Responders

We provide volunteer ems assistance to county emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster

Haskell County Ambulance

To provide ambulance services to the haskell county area.

—

Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster

Navarro County Ambulatory Care Association

Striving to ensure the people of Navarro County & beyond are provided quality healthcare.

Health

Port Aransas Conservancy Fund

Environment

Waskom Volunteer Fire Department & Ems Services Inc

Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.

Public Safety & Disaster

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aransas County Medical Services Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 56 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/22

Grantees still filing

12/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,608,205Human Services$546,800Education$424,621Philanthropy$420,000Arts & Culture$272,400Health$90,000Public Safety & Disaster$80,000

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.

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.

Coastal Bend Community FoundationTX34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Margaret Sue Rust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Sue Rust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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