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.

Rural Community Assistance Corporation

Rural Community Assistance Corporation at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

States reached

$257M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Various Others	$1,966,380
WARNER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRIC	$190,299
WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP	$161,232
STARTUP TUCSON	$155,000
LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA Fndn	$125,000
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL	$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$18M · 44 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Total granted

$18M

$690k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+17%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

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 +93%

Funded once

PU
Parlier Unified School Distri
one grant, 2023 · $104k
LM
LAKE MORENA OAK SHORES MUTUAL WATER CO
one grant, 2021 · $92k · revenue -58%
OL
OPPORTUNITY LINK INC
one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +1%

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.

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

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

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

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

Rural Housing Development Corporation

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

Housing & Shelter

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

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

Housing Resources of Western Colorado

To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.

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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.

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Newwest Community Capital Inc

A certified community development financial institution organized to increase access to capital for affordable housing and community facilities.

Community Improvement

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

Alaska Community Development Corporation

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

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comite De Bien Estar Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/57

Grantees still filing

37/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rural Community Assistance Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rural Community Assistance Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home