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Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

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 FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$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 FY20172024.

Community Improvement$50MPublic Benefit$24MHuman Services$20MEnvironment$145kSocial Science$15kOther$52M
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $23,993,163 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,659,730 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $666,567 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $377k
  • $250k+8 grants · $23M
$91,286
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $20.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLCAP: $3.3M → 12%GLCAP: $3.1M → 12%GLCAP: $3.0M → 12%GLCAP: $2.6M → 12%GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $2.6M → 12%GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $2.1M → 12%WSOS COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $1.8M → 12%GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $1.7M → 12%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

VT
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OH
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CA
CO
MO
KY
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DC
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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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$147M · 29 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

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

29
3

Total granted

$147M
$35k

Still filing today

72%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26M · revenue +116% · 42% of their budget
  • RC
    Rural Community Assistance Corporation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24M · revenue +380%
  • RS
    RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • VT
    VIRGINIA TECH
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • R
    RDI
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

2
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

4
Rural Water Association of Utah

Technical assistance for water and waste water systems

Public Benefit
5
Association of State Drinking Water Administrators

Asdwa seeks to protect the public health by working with both state and federal officials to assure the highest quality drinking water possible.

Environment
6
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

7
National Rural Water Association

To cultivate opportunities for state associations to be successful for the benefits of their memebers.

8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

9
National Hydropower Association Inc

Champion water power as america's premier emission-free renewable energy resource. inform public policy to protect, enhance and expand water power within the u.s. electric system. share technological advancement and encourage operational…

10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
American Wood Council

Awc provides a forum for members to work together on issues related to building codes and standards, green building & environmental regulations affecting wood products manufacturers.

Community Improvement
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Assistance Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Action Kentucky Inc. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr13%64%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,534

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

23 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. 23 of the 34 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC — $21,935,469 · OtherRCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSIN…MIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $21,509,316 · OtherMIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $4,740,933 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY …+19 more — $4,208,155 · Other+19 moreCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC — $25,500,766 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INCRural Community Assistance Corporation — $24,181,392 · Community ImprovementRural Community Assistance Corporation+3 more — $95,364 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $21,564,629 · Public BenefitSOUTHEAST RURAL CO…AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION — $2,662,417 · Public BenefitAMERICAN WATER WOR…GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $20,249,946 · Human ServicesGREAT LAKES COM…MULTIPLIER — $59,450 · EnvironmentWater Environment Federation — $58,095 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP — $27,200 · EnvironmentTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 · Social Science
Other$52,393,873Community Improvement$49,777,522Public Benefit$24,227,046Human Services$20,249,946Environment$144,745Social Science$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC — $25,500,766 over 8y, 42% of budgetRural Community Assistance Corporation — $24,181,392 over 8y, 12% of budgetRCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC — $21,935,469 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $21,564,629 over 8y, 46% of budgetMIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $21,509,316 over 8y, 66% of budgetGREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $20,249,946 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION — $2,662,417 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWATER SYSTEMS COUNCIL — $1,398,338 over 8y, 30% of budgetINTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA INC — $836,601 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC — $487,626 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $343,935 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES — $270,262 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNational Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association — $161,782 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $59,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWater Environment Federation — $58,095 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation — $41,223 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC — $39,141 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC — $35,811 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP — $27,200 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS — $15,925 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION KENTUCKY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 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 COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC
  • Who funds Rural Community Assistance Corporation
  • Who funds RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds MIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WATER SYSTEMS COUNCIL
  • Who funds INTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES
  • Who funds National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association
  • Who funds UNITED SOUTH AND EASTERN TRIBESINC
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER
  • Who funds Water Environment Federation
  • Who funds National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION KENTUCKY INC
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE 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.

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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 Partnership Incorporated 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 · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Willamette Partnership76% of income from government
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc11% of income from government
  • Rcap Solutions Inc Formerly Rural Housing Improvement Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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, 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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