· Community foundation
Rush County Community Foundation Inc
The rush county community foundation, the foundation of rush county's future, is a nonprofit public charity established in 1991 to serve donors, award grants and scholarships, and provide leadership to cultivate resources to enhance life in rush county, indiana.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $7,071,832 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,443,083 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $371,251 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 $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $403k
- $250k+1 grant · $6.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REC BUILDING HOLDING CORP | $6,602,772 |
| RCHS ACTIVITIES FUND | $44,784 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH COUNTY | $42,912 |
| ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $32,361 |
| CLEAN GREEN RUSH | $30,000 |
| RUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $23,777 |
| RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES | $21,377 |
| EAST HILL CEMETERY CO | $19,451 |
| RUSHVILLE AMERICAN LEGION POST 150 LTD | $18,690 |
| RUSHVILLE ELEMENTRY SCHOOL | $18,506 |
| RUSHVILLE TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,750 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA | $15,000 |
| MILROY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $12,500 |
| RUSH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $12,391 |
| ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $11,647 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH CO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $248k · revenue +118%
- RPRUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +65%
- RMRush Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $98k · revenue +285% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $65k
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERSone grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +10%
- RARUSH AIC RECOVERY HOUSING INCone grant, 2017 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN
To provide grants to service organizations
Local Youth Little League Program
Recycling
Provide fire, ambulance and rescue service to the town of rush, new york
Our mission is to engage in firefighting and similar disaster assistance.
Housing assistance
Maintain and operate the cemetery
Distribute food to the needy of the community throughout the year.
The rush county community foundation, the foundation of rush county's future, is a nonprofit public charity established in 1991 to serve donors, award grants and scholarships, and provide leadership to cultivate resources to enhance life…
Provide free public education to students grades pre-k through 8th.
Provide self-insurance funds to exempt organization.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentors of Rush Co Empowering Youth and the most unlike its peers is Rec Holding Building Corp. 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 31 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 71% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 53 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 REC Holding Building Corp ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH CO INC ↗
- Who funds RUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Rush Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HUFFER MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rushville St Mary Catholic School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds BPOE Lodge No 1307 Rushville Indiana Elks ↗
- Who funds East Hill Cemetery Company of Rushville ↗
- Who funds RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SHELBYVILLE SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MENTORS OF RUSH CO EMPOWERING YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MANILLA COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds SHARES 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.
Open a dossier: Blue River Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rush County Community Foundation Inc 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.
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.