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National Rural Health Association

The association's mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communications, education, and research.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
38
States reached
$593k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 2024.

Health$8.2MEmployment$2.1MEducation$262kSocial Science$67kCommunity Improvement$45kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k36 grants · $781k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.1M
$20,000
Median grant
38
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STROUDWATER ASSOCIATES$593,353
EIDE BAILLY LLP$505,626
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$346,922
3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT$342,243
FORVIS$262,112
WIPFLI$167,000
TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER$91,666
TEN MILE ENTERPRISES LLC$66,000
AGRISAFE NETWORK$60,000
NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIO$60,000
OKLAHOMA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$45,297
PENNSYLVANIA RURAL HEALTH ASSOC$45,000
NEBRASKA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION$44,954
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH$44,879
MISSISSIPPI RURAL HEALTH ASSOC$40,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $153k → 22%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $110k → 19%AGRISAFE NETWORK: $60k → 9%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $399k → 10%LEGATO HEALTHCARE MARKETING INC: $483k → 15%LEGATO HEALTHCARE MARKETING INC: $167k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP &: $150k → 8%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $347k → 13%TEN MILE ENTERPRISES LLC: $66k → 9%EDWARD VIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC: $164k → 21%AGRISAFE NETWORK: $77k → 11%NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIO: $72k → 7%NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ROUNDTABLE: $62k → 9%NATIONAL COOPERATIVE OF HEALTH: $100k → 19%NATIONAL COOPERATIVE OF HEALTH: $104k → 19%STROUDWATER ASSOCIATES: $724k → 7%TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $125k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $175k → 16%MORNING CONSULTING LLC: $100k → 14%AGRISAFE NETWORK: $60k → 9%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $361k → 10%LEGATO HEALTHCARE MARKETING INC: $100k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP &: $150k → 8%EDWARD VIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC: $110k → 21%AGRISAFE NETWORK: $70k → 11%NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ROUNDTABLE: $62k → 7%NATIONAL COOPERATIVE OF HEALTH: $100k → 19%STROUDWATER ASSOCIATES: $593k → 7%TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $103k → 22%MORNING CONSULTING LLC: $67k → 14%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $342k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP &: $150k → 8%AGRISAFE NETWORK: $63k → 11%NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ROUNDTABLE: $60k → 7%STROUDWATER ASSOCIATES: $413k → 7%TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $100k → 22%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $227k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP &: $150k → 8%AGRISAFE NETWORK: $60k → 11%NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIO: $60k → 7%TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $92k → 22%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $177k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP &: $100k → 8%AGRISAFE NETWORK: $60k → 11%NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIO: $60k → 7%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $177k → 10%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $177k → 10%3RNET-NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT: $177k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
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MN
IL
WI
MI
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OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 53 repeat orgs$748k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
7

Total granted

$13M
$355k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+65%

Still filing today

62%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
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

  • NR
    NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT & RETENTION NETWORK INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +45% · 39% of their budget
  • FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $806k · revenue +174%
  • AN
    AGRISAFE NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $570k · revenue +251%

Funded once

  • US
    USC School of Medicine Greenville
    one grant, 2021 · $175k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
    one grant, 2017 · $110k
  • KH
    Kansas Hospital Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +65%
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.

1
Agricultural Health Benefits Alliance Educational Foundation Llc
Education
2
Missouri Rural Health Association

The association is a non-profit organization whose mission is to safeguard and improve the health of rural missourians. the association accomplishes this mission by engaging in partnerships and providing leadership on rural issues through…

Health
3
Rural Health Leadership and Education Foundation

The foundation was created to elevate aspiring rural health leaders by reinforcing supported programs that educate rural health professionals on best practices, both in rural facilities and in washington dc.

Health
4
Healthy Nevada
Health
5
Rural Health Development Inc
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6
Arkansas Rural Health Partnership Inc

The mission of the arkansas rural health partnership is to create and implement sustainable community solutions to improve the southeast arkansas delta's rural health care infrastructure by improving access to health care services,…

Health
7
National Rural Health Association

The association's mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communications, education, and research.

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8
Mha Foundation Inc
Health
9
Public Health Association of Nebraska

Public education on health issues

Health
10
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
11
National Association of Rural Health Clinics Inc

To establish an association which will assist rural health clinics in improving the delivery of cost effective health care in rural under-served areas.

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12
Rural Health Services Inc

To provide services to small rural hospitals that otherwise would be unavailable or cost prohibitive to the residents of our trade area.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Rural Health Association; the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico. 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

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 63 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STROUDWATER ASSOCIATES: $1,730,647 · OtherSTROUDWATER ASSOCIATESEIDE BAILLY LLP: $1,109,425 · OtherEIDE BAILLY LLPFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION: $805,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATIONLEGATO HEALTHCARE MARKETING INC: $750,000 · OtherLEGATO HEALTHCARE MARKETING INCTEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $572,217 · OtherTEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERFORVIS: $463,833 · OtherFORVISNational Cooperative of Health Networks Assoc: $353,666 · OtherWIPFLI: $284,720 · Other+23 more: $1,713,887 · Other+23 moreNATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT & RETENTION NETWORK INC: $2,037,957 · HealthNATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT & RETENTION NET…AGRISAFE NETWORK INC: $570,000 · HealthAGRISAFE NETWORK INCNEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $489,880 · HealthNEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION+23 more: $2,083,238 · Health+23 moreGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $346,922 · EducationEDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $328,720 · EducationMARYLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $119,745 · EducationKENTUCKY RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $94,835 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationCommunity Foundation of Southern New Mexico: $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$7,783,895Health$5,181,075Education$910,222Philanthropy$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT & RETENTION NETWORK INC: $2,037,957 over 8y, 39% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION: $805,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetAGRISAFE NETWORK INC: $570,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetNEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $489,880 over 8y, 31% of budgetNational Cooperative of Health Networks Assoc: $353,666 over 4y, 47% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $346,922 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $328,720 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $162,688 over 7y, 24% of budgetAZRHA INC: $159,757 over 9y, 76% of budgetLOUISIANA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $124,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetMARYLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $119,745 over 7y, 22% of budgetIOWA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $110,000 over 9y, 34% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC: $107,335 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetRURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TE: $106,160 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetNEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL HEALTH INC: $104,445 over 8y, 28% of budgetCOLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER: $104,350 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $101,599 over 8y, 30% of budgetINDIANA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $97,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFLORIDA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $95,335 over 6y, 33% of budgetKENTUCKY RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $94,835 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI RURAL HEALTH ASSOC: $92,500 over 5y, 29% of budgetMISSOURI RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $90,663 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetHAWAII STATE RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $85,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetSC Office of Rural Health Inc: $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetILLINOIS RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $77,500 over 7y, 16% of budgetALABAMA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $77,500 over 6y, 28% of budgetRURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ARKANSAS: $71,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetVa Rural Health Association: $70,156 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetOHIO RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $64,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetGEORGIA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $63,500 over 4y, 30% of budgetRURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKLAHOMA INC: $57,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Southern New Mexico: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKansas Hospital Association: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRURAL HEALTH PROJECTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL QUALITY FORUM: $5,250 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL RURAL RECRUITMENT & RETENTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds AGRISAFE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds National Cooperative of Health Networks Assoc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AZRHA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TE ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO RURAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI RURAL HEALTH ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII STATE RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SC Office of Rural Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 National Rural Health Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Rural Health Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 72%
  • Rural Health Projects Inc: 72% of income from government
  • New England Rural Health Association: 61% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 63 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 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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