How much did RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE grant in FY2024?

RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE reported 22 grants totaling $24,659,730 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE based?

RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE is based in DC.

RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE

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· Public charity

RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE

Rcap works with rural communities across the country to elevate rural voices and build local capacity to improve quality of life, starting at the tap.

$25M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$4.5M

Largest

01What you fund

0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Community Improvement$46MPublic Benefit$22MHuman Services$18MEnvironment$145kSocial Science$15kOther$48M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

developon-site respective

2020

research economic

2021

research economic

2022

research economic

2023

research economic

2024

research economic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k9 grants · $178k
$50k–250k4 grants · $377k
$250k+8 grants · $23M

$91,286

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED$4,458,249
RURAL COMM ASSISTANCE CORP$3,862,835
RCAP SOLUTIONS INC$3,763,661
SERCAP$3,682,994
MIDWEST ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP$3,628,455
GLCAP$3,037,929
UNIVERSITY OF IL$722,614
AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION$275,025
INTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA INC$112,898
UCLA$101,269
WATER SYSTEM COUNCIL$91,286
NATIONAL ONSITE WASTEWATER RECYCLING ASSOCIATION$71,782
NATIONAL ENIVORMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION$34,259
MULTIPLIER$30,025
WILLIAMETTE PARTNERSHIP$27,200

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $18.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$135M · 29 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$135M

$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+33%

Still filing today

69%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEnvironmentPublic BenefitHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther

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

CU
COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $24M · revenue +92% · 42% of their budget
RC
RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CORPORATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $22M · revenue +143%
RS
RCAP SOLUTIONS INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $20M · revenue +89%

Funded once

US
UNITED SOUTH AND EASTERN TRIBESgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +33%
P
PENNSTATE
one grant, 2018 · $14k
VT
VIRGINIA TECH
one grant, 2019 · $13k

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.

National Association of Clean

Leading advocate for responsible nat'l policies that advance a sustainable approach to clean water.

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National Association of Regulatory

To serve the public interest by improving the quality and effectiveness of public utility regulation.

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American Gas Association

American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…

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Association of State Drinking Water

Protect the public health by working to assure the highest quality drinking water possible.

Environment

Evergreen Rural Water of Washington

Evergreen rural water of washington is an association that serves the needs of water and wastewater utilities throughout washington state. it provides on-site technical assistance and training, and leadership on issues affecting the…

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National Asphalt Pavement Association

The national asphalt pavement association inc. is the only trade association that exclusively represents the interests of the asphalt producer and paving contractor on the national level with congress, government agencies, and other…

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California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech

Rural Water Association of Utah

Technical assistance for water and waste water systems

Public Benefit

National Association of Landscape

Advocates for lawn and landscape industry growth and the benefits we provide to our communities.

Unclassified

American Water Works Association

Advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the water works industry.

Public Benefit

America's Watershed Initiative

America's watershed initiative (awi) is a collaboration working with hundreds of business, government, academic, and civic organizations to find solutions for the challenges of managing the mississippi river and the more than 250 rivers…

Human Services

American Water Works Association

The purpose of the scawwa is to promote the public health, safety and welfare by advocating drinking water of superior quality and sufficient quantity and by developing and furthering the understanding of technology, science, education and…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Assistance Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Environmental. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,533

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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

22/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$47,915,379Community Improvement$46,163,654Public Benefit$22,188,400Human Services$18,452,559Environment$144,745Social Science$15,000

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

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.

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.

Tides FoundationCA10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +69% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 470611476 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 66% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rural Community Assistance?

Find your warmest path to Rural Community Assistance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rural Community Assistance?

More from the funding graph

RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rural Community Assistance?

More from the funding graph