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Rural Development Initiatives Inc

Rdi strengthens rural people, places, and economies in the pacific northwest.

$168k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$42k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$17,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Rural Development Initiatives Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23
Food & NutritionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$42k100%
FY20231$6k100%
FY20217$72k14%
FY202010$317kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$150kCommunity Improvement$101kHuman Services$71kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$40kArts & Culture$16kFood & Nutrition$8kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cycle Oregon Inc$150,075131%
Warm Springs Community Action Team$40,00023%
City of Veneta$40,0002n/a
High Desert Partnership$40,00022%
Euvalcree$40,00021%
Launch Pad Baker$28,000214%
Northeast Oregon Economic Development District$28,00025%
Lighthouse Community Center$17,000115%
Rotary International$16,0001n/a
Othello Senior Center$8,8001n/a
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All grantees of Rural Development Initiatives Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cycle Oregon Inc$150,075131%
Warm Springs Community Action Team$40,00023%
City of Veneta$40,0002n/a
High Desert Partnership$40,00022%
Euvalcree$40,00021%
Launch Pad Baker$28,000214%
Northeast Oregon Economic Development District$28,00025%
Lighthouse Community Center$17,000115%
Rotary International$16,0001n/a
Othello Senior Center$8,8001n/a
Blue Mountain Action Council$8,00010%
Dbg Construction LLC$6,0001n/a
Building Beyond The Walls$5,0001n/a
Southeast Washington Economic Development Association$5,00011%
SonBridge Community Center$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Rural Development Initiatives Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCycle Oregon Inc: $150,075 over 1y, 31% of budgetWarm Springs Community Action Team: $40,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHigh Desert Partnership: $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEuvalcree: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLaunch Pad Baker: $28,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNortheast Oregon Economic Development District: $28,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLighthouse Community Center: $17,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBlue Mountain Action Council: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheast Washington Economic Development Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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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 9.

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.

The Ford Family FoundationOR17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Rural Development Initiatives Inc

How much does Rural Development Initiatives Inc give?
Rural Development Initiatives Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $41,800, out of $167,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Rural Development Initiatives Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (34%), Community Improvement (23%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Rural Development Initiatives Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cycle Oregon Inc ($150k), Warm Springs Community Action Team ($40k), City of Veneta ($40k).
Does Rural Development Initiatives Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rural Development Initiatives Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Family Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Rural Development Initiatives Inc based?
Rural Development Initiatives Inc is based in OR.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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