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Rural Coalition

Developing and implementing public policies which will benefit disadvantaged rural people and their communities.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$282k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$3.1MHuman Services$1.8MEmployment$763kCommunity Improvement$263kCrime & Legal$240kReligion$207kYouth Development$52kEnvironment$25k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,394,311, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,364,685 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,970,374 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $821k
  • $250k+2 grants · $555k
$122,454
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
La Mujer Obrera$281,883
Rural Advancement Fund$272,885
American Indian Movement Interpretive Center$168,315
Oklahoma Black Historical Research Project$141,525
Coalicin de Pequeos$122,454
Kansas Black Farmers Association Inc$113,400
Operation Spring Plant$107,454
Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc$90,625
American Indian Mothers Inc$77,500
Cottage House Inc$18,270
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 (FY21–25, $886k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Indian Movement Interpretive Center: $345k → 11%American Indian Movement Interpretive Center: $173k → 11%American Indian Movement Interpretive Center: $168k → 11%American Indian Movement Interpretive Center: $147k → 11%American Indian Movement Interpretive Center: $52k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MA
CA
MD
KS
NC
SC
OK
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 13 repeat orgs$530k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$7.3M
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
0%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEmploymentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • AI
    American Indian Mothers Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M
  • OB
    OKLAHOMA BLACK HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue -25% · 88% of their budget
  • RA
    RURAL ADVANCEMENT FUND OF THE NATIO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $948k · revenue -89% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • LF
    Latino Farmers & Ranchers International
    one grant, 2024 · $179k
  • TC
    TAD CONSULTING GROUP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $126k · revenue -95% · 64% of their budget
  • WF
    WORLD FARMERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $78k · revenue 0%
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
National Latino Farmers and Ranchers

NLFR provides training workshops on best practices in relevant farm and ranching policy, forums, and webinars, and facilitate meetings with state, local, and federal elected officials

Education
2
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
3
Ujamaa Farmer Collective Association

Carrying out the policy of Californias to support socially disadvantaged farmers through The Farmers Equity Act and with pending state funding, the mission of Ujamaa Farmer Collective Association is empowering historically underserved…

Community Improvement
4
Expanding Resources Into Action Inc

To engage other community based organizations, faith based organization, universities, and state and federal agencies in important work to assist Limited Resource and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers through education and…

Community Improvement
5
Rising Farmworker Dream Fund
Recreation & Sports
6
Northwest Farms to Families

The NWF2F DBA Minority Growers Collective is a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit founded in February of 2021 to meet the education, training, and financial assistance needs of agricultural growers and producers of color and meet the needs of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Kentucky Ag Development Advocacy Inc

Kentucky Agriculture Development Advocacy KADA Inc is structured as a 501c4 nonprofit organization to align with its mission of promoting social welfare through agricultural conservation education and advocacy

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8
Colectivo Arbol Inc

The mission is to provide farmers with low income, food, health resources and education

—
9
Native American Agriculture Fund
Food & Nutrition
10
Us Farmers and Ranchers Alliance

MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…

Community Improvement
11
Farmers Outreach Solutions

Provide training and development, enhance entrepreneurial skills, and expand eductaional awareness and empowerment to minority, small, limited resource farmers

Food & Nutrition
12
2020 Farmers Cooperative Incorporated

The mission of the 2020 Farmers Cooperative is to create and operate a marketing cooperative that promotes fair and equitable agricultural opportunities for black and socially disadvantaged farmers nationwide.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Black Historical Research Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tad Consulting Group Inc. 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 18 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
2/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Indian Mothers Inc: $1,171,865 · OtherAmerican Indian Mothers IncRURAL ADVANCEMENT FUND OF THE NATIO: $947,611 · OtherRURAL ADVANCEMENT FUND OF THE NATIOCottage House Inc: $502,729 · OtherCottage House IncFarmers' Legal Action Group Inc: $240,000 · OtherFarmers' Legal Action Group IncPELETAH MINISTRIES: $206,594 · OtherPELETAH MINISTRIESCoalicion de Pequenos Agricultores En California: $122,454 · Other+2 more: $131,678 · OtherOKLAHOMA BLACK HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECT INC: $1,077,780 · Food & NutritionOKLAHOMA BLACK HISTORICAL R…Operation Spring Plant: $577,182 · Food & NutritionOperation Spring PlantLatino Farmers & Ranchers International: $178,755 · Food & NutritionLatino Farmers & Ranchers I…WORLD FARMERS INC: $77,730 · Food & NutritionAmerican Indian Services: $885,756 · Human ServicesAmerican Ind…KANSAS BLACK FARMERS ASSOCIATION INC: $831,756 · Arts & CultureKANSAS BLACK…CENTRO DEL OBRERO FRONTERIZO INC: $544,459 · EmploymentCENTRO DEL…Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc: $163,125 · EmploymentOrganizaci…TAD CONSULTING GROUP INC: $125,621 · EducationTEXAS COALITION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,322,931Food & Nutrition$1,911,447Human Services$885,756Arts & Culture$831,756Employment$707,584Education$125,621Community Improvement$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOKLAHOMA BLACK HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECT INC: $1,077,780 over 5y, 88% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FUND OF THE NATIO: $947,611 over 5y, 44% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $885,756 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetKANSAS BLACK FARMERS ASSOCIATION INC: $831,756 over 5y, 48% of budgetOperation Spring Plant: $577,182 over 5y, 24% of budgetCENTRO DEL OBRERO FRONTERIZO INC: $544,459 over 4y, 16% of budgetFarmers' Legal Action Group Inc: $240,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc: $163,125 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTAD CONSULTING GROUP INC: $125,621 over 1y, 64% of budgetWORLD FARMERS INC: $77,730 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS COALITION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS: $25,000 over 1y, 29% 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.

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.

Windward FundAmazonsmile Foundation
Windward FundDC13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windward Fund · 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 Rural Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rural Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 97%
  • Oklahoma Black Historical Research Project Inc: 97% of income from government
  • World Farmers Inc: 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 Rural Coalition?

Find your warmest path to Rural Coalition 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 18 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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