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Rural Community Assistance Corporation

RCAC provides training, technical and financial resources and advocacy so rural communities achieve their goals and visions.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Housing & Shelter$15MEnvironment$1.3MCommunity Improvement$985kArts & Culture$528kEducation$511kEmployment$211kFood & Nutrition$117kHealth$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $718k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$26,614
Median grant
11
States reached
$257M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various Others$1,966,380
WARNER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRIC$190,299
WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP$161,232
STARTUP TUCSON$155,000
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL$125,000
LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA Fndn$125,000
Marysville Joint Unified Sch$122,395
Community in Action$96,853
Inland Fair Hsg & Mediation B$69,713
HomesFund$52,183
Mother Lode Job Training$44,688
Access$42,497
Natl Affordable Hsg Network$41,141
Housing Solutions of N AZ$39,991
MOONSHOT MISSIONS$39,125
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HR Dev Council of Distric IX: $7k → 10%Comm Action PRS of NW MT: $16k → 11%Homestead Comm Dev Corp: $27k → 9%HEALTHY NATIVE COMMUNITIES PA: $14k → 22%Community Action Team Inc: $5k → 11%Hopesource: $16k → 11%OIC of Washington: $19k → 17%The Wylie Center: $17k → 11%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

AK
WA
ID
MT
OR
NV
SD
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
NM
DC
HI

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 44 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
30

Total granted

$18M
$690k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

61%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $442k 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
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & 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

  • VC
    VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $366k · revenue +65%
  • HS
    HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $348k · revenue +81%
  • HC
    HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $296k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • PU
    Parlier Unified School Distri
    one grant, 2023 · $104k
  • LM
    LAKE MORENA OAK SHORES MUTUAL WATER CO
    one grant, 2021 · $92k · revenue -100%
  • OL
    OPPORTUNITY LINK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +1%

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.

1
Northwest Montana Community Land Trust Inc

Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.

Housing & Shelter
2
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
3
North Idaho Community Services Corp Dba Panhandle Affordable Housing Allianc

To develop and preserve housing in Kootenai County that our low-income neighbors and our local workers can afford. We want to provide not just a place to live, but a place to build a future, for all residents living in our county.

Unclassified
4
Southwestern Regional Housing and Community Development Corp

The mission of the southwestern regional housing and community development corporation (srhcdc)is to provide affordable housing and housing resources to low and moderate income residents in luna, hidalgo, catron, grant and sierra counties,…

Human Services
5
Rural Housing Development Corporation

To provide quality affordable housing opportunities to individuals and families living in Utah.

Housing & Shelter
6
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
7
The Housing Company

To address the concern of an inadequate supply of affordable, decent rental housing within the state of Idaho and other states and other similar areas of need. The Housing Company was created to encourage the development, management and…

Unclassified
8
Two Valleys Community Land Trust

The mission of the Two Valleys Community Land Trust is to create, preserve and manage affordable housing in the San Geronimo Valley and beyond.

Housing & Shelter
9
Alaska Community Development Corporation

To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.

Community Improvement
10
Housing Development Center

Centering those who have been historically oppressed, housing development center, inc. collaborates with its partners to envision, develop, and sustain affordable homes and community places.

Housing & Shelter
11
Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho

Habitat for humanity of north idaho works in partnership with the community to build decent, energy efficient houses for qualified families in kootenai county.

12
North West Housing Partnership

Through a fiscally responsible and multi-faceted approach, north west housing partnership nwhp promotes public and private partnerships that create and preserve cost-effective quality diverse housing for low to moderate-income residents…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comite De Bien Estar Inc and the most unlike its peers is The California Endowment. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Addiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsSenior Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…
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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%10%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%50%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,889

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.

04the grantee network

57 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 90 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Various Others — $7,955,008 · OtherVarious OthersVarious Others wout loan #s — $3,116,443 · OtherVarious Others wout loan #sLake Morena Views Mut CO — $612,907 · Other+36 more — $2,695,427 · Other+36 moreCommunity Housing Council of Fresno — $511,635 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Ho…HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC — $348,376 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING SOLU…HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC — $296,076 · Housing & ShelterHAWAIIAN COM…HOMESFUND — $223,466 · Housing & ShelterHOMESFUNDNational Affordable Housing Network — $193,869 · Housing & ShelterNational Aff…NEIGHBORHOOD NONPROFIT HOUSING CORP — $129,305 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD…Self-Help Enterprises — $103,369 · Housing & Shelter+10 more — $255,783 · Housing & Shelter+10 moreVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $366,409 · Community ImprovementSTARTUP TUCSON — $215,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $175,000 · Community ImprovementPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $85,786 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST IDAHO COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT INC — $43,785 · Community Improvement+8 more — $185,372 · Community ImprovementWILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP — $252,045 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc — $132,917 · EnvironmentBLUE SKY SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER — $63,527 · EnvironmentMoonshot Missions Inc — $39,125 · EnvironmentBEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC — $20,245 · Environment+3 more — $30,157 · EnvironmentLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $234,738 · PhilanthropyCommunity in Action — $194,047 · PhilanthropyINLAND FAIR HOUSING AND MEDIATION BOARD — $254,228 · Crime & LegalHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $27,032 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON — $18,918 · Human ServicesTHE CAROLYN E WYLIE CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES — $16,667 · Human ServicesHOPESOURCE — $16,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MONTANA HUMAN RESOURCES INC DBA COMMUNITY ACTION PARNERSHIP NW MT — $16,000 · Human ServicesHealthy Native Communities Partnership I — $13,773 · Human ServicesHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Action Team — $5,248 · Human ServicesWALLOWA RESOURCES INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$14,379,785Housing & Shelter$2,061,879Community Improvement$1,246,352Environment$538,016Philanthropy$428,785Crime & Legal$254,228Human Services$120,638Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Housing Council of Fresno — $511,635 over 3y, 63% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $366,409 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC — $348,376 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC — $296,076 over 3y, 12% of budgetACCESS — $265,135 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINLAND FAIR HOUSING AND MEDIATION BOARD — $254,228 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetWILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP — $252,045 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $234,738 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOMESFUND — $223,466 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetSTARTUP TUCSON — $215,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCommunity in Action — $194,047 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNational Affordable Housing Network — $193,869 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCOMITE DE BIEN ESTAR INC — $188,965 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $175,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $132,917 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD NONPROFIT HOUSING CORP — $129,305 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSelf-Help Enterprises — $103,369 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE MORENA OAK SHORES MUTUAL WATER CO — $91,612 over 1y, 14% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $85,786 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCompanies for Causes — $80,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBLUE SKY SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER — $63,527 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY LINK INC — $60,296 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHOUSING AMERICA CORPORATION — $50,876 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST IDAHO COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT INC — $43,785 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST — $41,047 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOY RECOVERY PROGRAM INC — $36,806 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLOGAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $34,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetKODIAK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $27,471 over 1y, 15% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON — $24,586 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSamaritan House Inc — $19,711 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLake County Community Housing — $19,670 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON — $18,918 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAROLYN E WYLIE CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES — $16,667 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPESOURCE — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST MONTANA HUMAN RESOURCES INC DBA COMMUNITY ACTION PARNERSHIP NW MT — $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEastern Sierra Community Housing — $16,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPUEBLO UNIDO CDC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc — $14,833 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHealthy Native Communities Partnership I — $13,773 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetYurok Alliance for Northern California Housing — $13,755 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetSNOWY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah — $9,786 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project — $8,628 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action Team — $5,248 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Community Housing Council of Fresno
  • Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC
  • Who funds ACCESS
  • Who funds INLAND FAIR HOUSING AND MEDIATION BOARD
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds HOMESFUND
  • Who funds STARTUP TUCSON
  • Who funds Community in Action
  • Who funds National Affordable Housing Network
  • Who funds COMITE DE BIEN ESTAR INC
  • Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD NONPROFIT HOUSING CORP
  • Who funds Self-Help Enterprises
  • Who funds LAKE MORENA OAK SHORES MUTUAL WATER CO
  • Who funds PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds Companies for Causes
  • Who funds BLUE SKY SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY LINK INC
  • Who funds HOUSING AMERICA CORPORATION
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST IDAHO COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT INC
  • Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST
  • Who funds Moonshot Missions Inc

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.

First Nations Development InstituteCO21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Wells Fargo Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Ndn Collective Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Resources Legacy Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · Share Our Strength · The Nature Conservancy

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 Rural Community Assistance Corporation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 29%
  • Wallowa Resources Inc100% of income from government
  • Willamette Partnership76% of income from government
  • Community in Action65% of income from government
  • Access65% of income from government
  • Community Action Team29% of income from government
  • The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts18% of income from government
  • Moonshot Missions Inc16% of income from government
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc6% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 90 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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