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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 FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$3.7MHealth$2.9MEmployment$2.1MReligion$1.4MHuman Services$840kFood & Nutrition$635kArts & Culture$615kCivil Rights$475kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $678k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Breakthrough Central Texas$250,000
Stephen F Austin State University$225,000
The Seton Fund$225,000
The SAFE Alliance$120,000
Creative Action$100,000
Snowdrop Foundation Inc$100,000
Sustainable Food Center$100,000
Camp for All$75,000
First United Methodist Church of Houston$75,000
DePelchin Children's Center$50,000
Communities in Schools of Central Texas$50,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas$50,000
Fertility Foundation of Texas$50,000
The Council on Recovery$40,000
Austin Christian Educational Foundation$40,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $555k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%The Foundation for Hope Village: $10k → 14%Covenant with Christ International: $10k → 17%Hungry Souls: $5k → 10%DePelchin Children's Center: $55k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $50k → 16%God's Garage: $5k → 9%God's Garage: $5k → 9%God's Garage: $5k → 9%Inspiration Ranch Inc: $5k → 9%Hand to Hold: $25k → 10%DePelchin Children's Center: $50k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $50k → 16%Depelchin Children's Center: $30k → 16%Hand to Hold: $25k → 10%Depelchin Children's Center: $15k → 16%Depelchin Children's Center: $15k → 16%Hand to Hold: $15k → 10%Financial Health Pathways: $5k → 10%Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin: $50k → 10%Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin: $35k → 10%Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin: $30k → 10%Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin: $30k → 10%Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin: $20k → 10%Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 32% of Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 51 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
28

Total granted

$13M
$842k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+9%

Still filing today

69%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • SF
    SNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $450k · revenue +17%
  • SF
    SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $425k · revenue +211%
  • BT
    BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $390k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • LS
    Lowe Syndrome Associaition
    one grant, 2021 · $275k
  • LS
    Lowe Syndrome Association
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • FF
    Fertility Foundation of Texas PMB 1
    one grant, 2019 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
3
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
4
Good Work Austin

Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

Public Benefit
5
FIRST3YEARS

First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…

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6
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.

Human Services
7
Texas Gun Sense

Texas Gun Sense is a statewide nonprofit and nonpartisan organization advocating to prevent gun violence and other gun tragedies in Texas through education, partnerships, and policy change.

Civil Rights
8
Children's Hospital Association of Texas

To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.

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9
Any Baby Can of Austin Inc

Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…

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10
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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11
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
12
Texas Forensic Nurse Examiners - Forensic Center of Excellence

Through a coordinated community response, the forensic center empowers victims, promotes healing and creates innovative and comprehensive solutions to fill gaps in victim services.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation Serve and the most unlike its peers is Nac Safe Place. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Healthcare Systems and Netw…Texas Policy & Advocacy Org…Regional Business ChambersChristian Discipleship Mini…Health Quality & Advocacy O…Residential Community Assoc…Animal Shelter and Rescue
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%8%<5yr16%15%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr12%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%29%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr12%8%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/74
the rest of the field
17%
13,780/82,195

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
38/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SFASU Foundation — $2,225,000 · OtherSFASU FoundationFirst Methodist Church - Houston — $1,100,000 · OtherFirst Methodist Church - HoustonThe Seton Fund — $575,000 · OtherThe Seton FundStephen F Austin State University — $500,000 · OtherStephen F Austin State UniversitySUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER — $425,000 · OtherLowe Syndrome Associaition — $275,000 · Other+54 more — $2,969,750 · Other+54 moreHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIE…FERTILITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $450,000 · PhilanthropyFERTILITY FOUNDATION…+4 more — $135,000 · PhilanthropyCon Mi MADRE — $510,000 · EducationCon Mi MA…BREAKTHROUGH — $380,000 · EducationBREAKTHRO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $150,000 · EducationCOMMUNITI…YOUTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $105,000 · EducationYOUTH JUS…AUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL — $50,000 · Education+5 more — $65,000 · EducationSNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · HealthThe Council on Recovery — $370,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $180,000 · Health+9 more — $91,500 · HealthDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $265,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesHAND TO HOLD — $65,000 · Human ServicesGENAUSTIN — $40,000 · Human Services+7 more — $65,000 · Human ServicesBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION — $390,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Action — $120,000 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY CO CRIME STOPPERS INC — $215,000 · Crime & LegalCASA OF DEEP EAST TEXAS INC — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$8,069,750Philanthropy$2,585,000Education$1,260,000Health$1,091,500Human Services$610,000Arts & Culture$510,000Crime & Legal$225,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetCon Mi MADRE — $510,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetFERTILITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $450,000 over 6y, 97% of budgetSNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER — $425,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION — $390,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH — $380,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Council on Recovery — $370,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $265,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY CO CRIME STOPPERS INC — $215,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetLake Conroe Association — $207,750 over 5y, 49% of budgetLowe Syndrome Association — $200,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetSIRE INC — $200,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $180,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC — $175,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP — $130,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF PEACE BETH SHALOM INC — $120,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetCreative Action — $120,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $105,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center — $95,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN — $70,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAND TO HOLD — $65,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGENAUSTIN — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE AUSTIN CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS — $30,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHEALTH START FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetAustin Community College Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEW PHILANTHROPISTS — $25,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAUSTIN TOGETHER FUND — $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGENERATION SERVE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTourette Syndrome Association of Texas — $20,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetGods Garage Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetREGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant with Christ International Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPD FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE VILLAGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA OF DEEP EAST TEXAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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 HOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Con Mi MADRE ↗
  • Who funds FERTILITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds SNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
  • Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY CO CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Lake Conroe Association ↗
  • Who funds Lowe Syndrome Association ↗
  • Who funds SIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF PEACE BETH SHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds Creative Action ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Austin Child Guidance Center ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND TO HOLD ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…Topfer Family Foundat…The Moody FoundationSt David's FoundationShield-Ayres Foundati…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Better Business BureauGreater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The Junior League of …Ecg FoundationHarry E and Eda L Mon…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX47.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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