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Rice County Community Foundation Inc

Engage people, connect resources, and inspire bold solutions for unity in rice county.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$457k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$8.0MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHousing & Shelter$507kPublic Safety & Disaster$257kFood & Nutrition$203kHuman Services$178kCrime & Legal$100kEnvironment$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $1,172,619, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,422,736 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $250,117 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $364k
  • $250k+1 grant · $457k
$12,113
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOOD CONSTRUCTION LLC$456,582
RICE COUNTY DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE$131,834
RICE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$100,000
HARVEST HUB INCORPORATED$77,236
HOSPITAL DISTRICT #1 RICE COUNTY$55,000
USD #405 - LYONS HIGH SCHOOL$32,500
Individual grant recipient$30,550
EDWARD JONES$19,706
BRICKMOB$19,200
PRETTY PRAIRIE CENTER OF GRACE$17,784
NORTHERN RICE COUNTY GOODFELLOWS$17,335
BERGEN'S ART LLC$17,238
CITY OF STERLING$15,000
CITY OF LITTLE RIVER$13,636
CITY OF LYONS$12,661
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNFLOWER DIVERSIFIED SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%LITTLE RIVER LEARNING CENTER: $18k → 11%CHILD CARE SERVICES OF STERLING INC: $38k → 11%LIL' CUB CHILD CARE: $10k → 11%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.
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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 18 repeat orgs$9.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$1.8M
$8.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+13%

Still filing today

22%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF LITTLE RIVER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $548k
  • RC
    RICE COUNTY DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $234k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $215k

Funded once

  • SC
    STERLING COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $7.9M · revenue +22% · 41% of their budget
  • RC
    RICE COUNTY HEARTS FOR HOMES
    one grant, 2023 · $27k
  • LR
    LITTLE RIVER LEARNING CENTER FDN
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -14%
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
Ringgold County Child Care Center

Community child care center

Human Services
2
Sterling Child Care Services Inc

After School Care

Human Services
3
Quality Care Services Inc

Provide usda meals to qualified daycare centers

Food & Nutrition
4
Sunshine Day Care

Providing quality child care in a safe and healthy environment to approx 40 children per day

Human Services
5
Sunshine Corners Inc

Child care services.

Human Services
6
Sterling Area Health Center

Combining leadership and teamwork to provide caring, high quality, efficient, and affordable primary health care for all segments of the community.

Health
7
Lake Shore Child Care Center Inc

Child care services for community families

Human Services
8
Triangle Day Care Center Inc

Day care facility operation

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9
Sunshine Valley Child Care

Sunshine Valley Child Care is a non-denomination Christian Child Care Center that offerschildren 16 months to 5 1/2 years a variety of activities and opportunties to learn and grow.

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10
Cornerstone Christian Academy

Child care focused on providing quality care in a christian environment.

Education
11
Rutgers-Livingston Day Care Center

Childcare school

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12
Clinton Child Care Service Inc

To provide day care services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rice County Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harvest Hub. 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

13 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. 13 of the 54 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STERLING COLLEGE: $7,942,903 · EducationSTERLING COLLEGECITY OF LITTLE RIVER: $547,872 · OtherCITY OF LITTLE RIVERHOOD CONSTRUCTION LLC: $456,582 · OtherHOOD CONSTRUCTION LLCRICE COUNTY DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: $233,982 · OtherRICE COUNTY DOWNTOWN ALLIAN…Individual grant recipient: $215,078 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLYONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $174,174 · OtherLYONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCERICE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $99,797 · OtherLITTLE RIVER DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $97,453 · OtherNORTHERN RICE GOODFELLOWS: $92,731 · Other+36 more: $606,664 · Other+36 moreHarvest Hub: $102,322 · Food & NutritionChild Care Services of Sterling Inc: $48,375 · Human ServicesLITTLE RIVER LEARNING CENTER FDN: $18,375 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER DIVERSIFIED SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAGEWISE LIVING INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $7,750 · Youth DevelopmentINTERFAITH HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: $6,744 · Community ImprovementRICE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,085 · Philanthropy
Education$7,942,903Other$2,624,333Food & Nutrition$102,322Human Services$76,750Housing & Shelter$10,000Youth Development$7,750Community Improvement$6,744Philanthropy$5,085

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 budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $7,942,903 over 1y, 41% of budgetLYONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $174,174 over 7y, 54% of budgetHarvest Hub: $102,322 over 2y, 77% of budgetChild Care Services of Sterling Inc: $48,375 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetLITTLE RIVER LEARNING CENTER FDN: $18,375 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSterling Country Club Inc: $11,231 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetAGEWISE LIVING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUNFLOWER DIVERSIFIED SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $7,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: $6,744 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRICE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRICE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,085 over 1y, 0.4% 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 STERLING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LYONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Harvest Hub ↗
  • Who funds Child Care Services of Sterling Inc ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE RIVER LEARNING CENTER FDN ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE CHILDCARE CENTER CORP ↗
  • Who funds Sterling Country Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds AGEWISE LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNFLOWER DIVERSIFIED SERVICES INC ↗

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.

Max L & S Charlene Mo…South Central Communi…Kansas Association of…Amazonsmile Foundation
Max L & S Charlene Moxley Charitable TrustKS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Max L & S Charlene Moxley Charitable Trust · South Central Community Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Amazonsmile 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 Rice County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rice County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rice County Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rice County Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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