California · Public charity
Rural Community Assistance Corporation
RCAC provides training, technical and financial resources and advocacy so rural communities achieve their goals and visions.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,614
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,966,380
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 44
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $257M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Rural Community Assistance Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $3.8M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $7.8M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $2.8M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.9M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $1.7M | n/a |
99% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Housing & Shelter$15MEnvironment$1.3MCommunity Improvement$985kArts & Culture$528kEducation$511kEmployment$211kFood & Nutrition$117kHealth$51kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
AK
WA
ID
MT
OR
NV
SD
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
NM
DC
HI
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Morena Views Mut CO | $612,907 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Housing Council of Fresno | $511,635 | 3 | 63% |
| La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians | $419,771 | 3 | n/a |
| Ventura County Community Development Corporation | $366,409 | 5 | 4% |
| Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc | $348,376 | 5 | 3% |
| Hawaiian Community Assets Inc | $296,076 | 3 | 12% |
| Western Arizona Council of Aging | $271,774 | 5 | n/a |
| Access | $265,135 | 5 | 0% |
| Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board | $254,228 | 5 | 5% |
| Willamette Partnership | $252,045 | 2 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Morena Views Mut CO | $612,907 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Housing Council of Fresno | $511,635 | 3 | 63% |
| La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians | $419,771 | 3 | n/a |
| Ventura County Community Development Corporation | $366,409 | 5 | 4% |
| Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc | $348,376 | 5 | 3% |
| Hawaiian Community Assets Inc | $296,076 | 3 | 12% |
| Western Arizona Council of Aging | $271,774 | 5 | n/a |
| Access | $265,135 | 5 | 0% |
| Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board | $254,228 | 5 | 5% |
| Willamette Partnership | $252,045 | 2 | 4% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Southern California | $234,738 | 4 | 1% |
| Homesfund | $223,466 | 5 | 4% |
| Nanakuli Housing Corporation | $219,075 | 5 | n/a |
| Startup Tucson | $215,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Community in Action | $194,047 | 5 | 1% |
| National Affordable Housing Network | $193,869 | 4 | 7% |
| Warner Unified School Distric | $190,299 | 1 | n/a |
| Comite de Bien Estar Inc | $188,965 | 5 | 1% |
| Local First Arizona Foundation | $175,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Mexico Community Capital | $175,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Marysville Joint Unified Sch | $140,517 | 3 | n/a |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $132,917 | 3 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corp | $129,305 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Oregon | $107,147 | 2 | n/a |
| Parlier Unified School Distri | $104,442 | 1 | n/a |
| Self-Help Enterprises | $103,369 | 4 | 0% |
| Mother Lode Job Training | $96,934 | 4 | n/a |
| Lake Morena Oak Shores Mutual Water Co | $91,612 | 1 | 14% |
| Plenty Doors Community Development Corporation | $85,786 | 3 | 2% |
| Companies for Causes | $80,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Northern Circle Indian Housing Authority | $66,706 | 2 | n/a |
| Blue Sky Sustainable Living Center | $63,527 | 3 | 6% |
| Opportunity Link Inc | $60,296 | 1 | 4% |
| Housing America Corporation | $50,876 | 1 | 2% |
| Southeast Idaho Council of Government Inc | $43,785 | 2 | 1% |
| Santa Fe Community Housing Trust | $41,047 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Raton Econ Dev Corp | $40,363 | 2 | n/a |
| Moonshot Missions Inc | $39,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Dry Crk Ranch Band Pomo Ind | $38,917 | 2 | n/a |
| Hoy Recovery Program Inc | $36,806 | 2 | 1% |
| Golden Feather Union Elementary School District | $36,320 | 3 | n/a |
| Visiones Collaborativas Collaborative Visions | $34,749 | 2 | n/a |
| Logan County Economic Development Corporation | $34,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Chawanakee Unified School Dis | $29,291 | 2 | n/a |
| Rio Arriba County | $29,180 | 1 | n/a |
| Washoe Development Corp | $29,076 | 3 | n/a |
| Kodiak Economic Development Corporation | $27,471 | 1 | 15% |
| Homestead Community Development Corp | $27,032 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustainable Northwest | $25,976 | 1 | 0% |
| Native American Development Corporaton | $24,586 | 1 | 0% |
| Cheyenne River Housing Authority | $24,280 | 1 | n/a |
| Kern County Superintendent of Schools | $21,575 | 1 | n/a |
| Hmong-American Advisory Council of Siskiyou County | $20,448 | 1 | n/a |
| Beartooth Resource Conservation and Development Area Inc | $20,245 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan House Inc | $19,711 | 2 | 1% |
| Lake County Community Housing | $19,670 | 1 | 1% |
| Kings Canyon Unified School District | $19,064 | 1 | n/a |
| Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington | $18,918 | 1 | 0% |
| Nye CTY Health & Human Svc | $18,605 | 1 | n/a |
| Spruce Root Inc | $18,590 | 1 | n/a |
| The Carolyn E Wylie Center for Children Youth & Families | $16,667 | 1 | 1% |
| Hopesource | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eastern Sierra Community Housing | $16,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Northwest Montana Human Resources Inc Dba Community Action Parnership Nw Mt | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pueblo Unido CDC | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fdn for Little CO Revitaliza | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| North Coast Land Conservancy Inc | $14,833 | 1 | 0% |
| Healthy Native Communities Partnership I | $13,773 | 1 | 6% |
| Yurok Alliance for Northern California Housing | $13,755 | 2 | 8% |
| Diablo Water District | $11,474 | 1 | n/a |
| Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District | $11,238 | 1 | n/a |
| Shiprock Community Development Corporation | $10,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Quite Oaks Moble Home Park | $10,475 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawaii Community Lending | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Snowy Mountain Development Corp | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wallowa Resources Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Hatch | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Robinson Rancheria | $9,940 | 1 | n/a |
| Cahuilla | $9,796 | 1 | n/a |
| Utah Dine Bikeyah | $9,786 | 1 | 1% |
| Plumas Cty Comm DC & HA | $9,360 | 1 | n/a |
| Peninsula Housing Authority | $9,062 | 1 | n/a |
| California Coalition for Rural Housing Project | $8,628 | 1 | 0% |
| Washoe Tribe of Nv and Ca | $7,417 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts | $5,538 | 1 | n/a |
| Mission Union School District | $5,363 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Action Team | $5,248 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rural Community Assistance Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 48.
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.
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
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.
Compare Rural Community Assistance Corporation with peer funders
About Rural Community Assistance Corporation
- How much does Rural Community Assistance Corporation give?
- Rural Community Assistance Corporation reported 43 grants totaling $3,869,255 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 44 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Rural Community Assistance Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (72%), Environment (6%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are Rural Community Assistance Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Lake Morena Views Mut CO ($613k), Community Housing Council of Fresno ($512k), La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians ($420k).
- Does Rural Community Assistance Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rural Community Assistance Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Wells Fargo Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
- Where is Rural Community Assistance Corporation based?
- Rural Community Assistance Corporation is based in CA.
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More from the funding graph
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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