Texas · Private foundation
Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation
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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 47
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $37M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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 | 58 | $2.2M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $2.0M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.9M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $2.4M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $2.1M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.9M | 53% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope to Opportunities Foundation | $2,000,000 | 2 | 84% |
| Con Mi MADRE | $510,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Fertility Foundation of Texas | $450,000 | 6 | 97% |
| Snowdrop Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Sustainable Food Center | $425,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Battleship Texas Foundation | $390,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Breakthrough | $380,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Council on Recovery | $370,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Depelchin Children's Center | $265,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Montgomery Co Crime Stoppers Inc | $215,000 | 5 | 38% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · St David's Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Junior League of Austin Inc · Ecg Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr
How this is measured
Compare Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation with peer funders
About Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation
- How much does Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation give?
- Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $2,214,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 47 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Health (20%), Employment (14%).
- Who are Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Hope to Opportunities Foundation ($2.0M), Con Mi MADRE ($510k), Fertility Foundation of Texas ($450k).
- Does Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Topfer Family Foundation, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation based?
- Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation is based in TX.
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