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Ruritan National Corporation Spout Spring Ruritan Club

A nonprofit club of the national ruritan that raises money which is then returned to various charitable and community services, local valunteer fire and rescue plus scholarship funds

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Public Safety & Disaster$191kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $121,054 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $165,054 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,000 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
$85,554
Median grant
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$85,554
VARIOUS FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENTS$35,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Appomattox Sheriff's Dept: $6k → 12%Concord Volunteer Fire Department: $10k → 13%Red HouseVolunteer Fire Department: $8k → 17%Red House Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 18%Toga Volunteer Fire Department: $5k → 18%Appomattox Volunteer Fire Dept: $6k → 12%Concord Volunteer Fire Dept: $6k → 13%Red House Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 17%Red House Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 18%Toga Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 18%Appomattox Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 12%Concord Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 13%Toga Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 18%AppomattoxVolunteer Fire Department: $5k → 12%Concord Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 13%Toga Volunteer Fire Dept: $4k → 18%Appomattox Volunteer Rescue: $5k → 12%Concord Volunteer Rescue: $5k → 13%Gladstone Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 18%Appomattox Volunteer Fire Dept: $4k → 12%Concord Volunteer Rescue Dept: $1k → 13%Gladstone Volunteer Fire Dept: $4k → 18%Appomattox Volunteer Rescue Dept: $1k → 12%Pamplin Volunteer Fire Department: $8k → 12%Pamplin Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 12%Pamplin Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 12%Pamplin Volunteer Fire Dept: $5k → 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.

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$191k · 7 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$191k
$73k

Still filing today

57%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

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

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

  • CV
    CONCORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    5× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +117%
  • PV
    PAMPLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
    5× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +33%
  • RH
    Red House Vol Fire Department
    5× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $85,554 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVARIOUS FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENTS — $63,500 · OtherVARIOUS FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENTSIndividual grant recipient — $54,987 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAppomattox Volunteer Fire Dept — $19,300 · OtherAppomattox Volunteer Fire DeptGladstone Volunteer Fire Dept — $18,500 · OtherGladstone Volunteer Fire Dept+5 more — $17,900 · Other+5 moreCONCORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $25,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCONCORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART…PAMPLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $23,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPAMPLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTRed House Vol Fire Department — $23,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRed House Vol Fire DepartmentToga Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $18,500 · Public Safety & DisasterToga Volunteer Fire Departmen…
Other$259,741Public Safety & Disaster$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONCORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $25,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetPAMPLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $23,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetRed House Vol Fire Department — $23,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetToga Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $18,500 over 5y, 5.1% 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 CONCORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds PAMPLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
  • Who funds Red House Vol Fire Department
  • Who funds Toga Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ruritan National Corporation Spout Spring Ruritan Club 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

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    How do I get to Ruritan National Corporation Spout Spring Ruritan Club?

    Find your warmest path to Ruritan National Corporation Spout Spring Ruritan Club through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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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