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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.

$929k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$6.7MRecreation & Sports$3.2MYouth Development$1.2MEducation$614kReligion$407kPublic Safety & Disaster$199kHealth$198kFood & Nutrition$171kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $584,469, the rows itemized in this filing. The $929,268 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $344,799 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $187k
$11,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TREASURER OF RUSH COUNTY$125,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH COUNTY$61,927
ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$32,518
RUSHVILLE AMERICAN LEGION POST 150 LTD$31,309
RUSHVILLE ELEMENTRY SCHOOL$28,004
RUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY$24,037
HOPE CENTER$20,000
THE OPEN RESOURCE$17,750
RUSH COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$17,000
RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES$15,530
RUSHVILLE PSI IOTA XI$15,000
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA$15,000
RCHS BOOSTER CLUB$13,800
RUSH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$12,527
ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$12,185
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%HUFFER MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $60k → 19%HUFFER CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL: $25k → 19%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $9k → 16%MILROY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 12%RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES: $21k → 12%RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES: $16k → 12%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $12k → 12%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $12k → 12%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $11k → 12%RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES: $10k → 12%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $10k → 12%RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES: $9k → 12%RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES: $8k → 12%RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $8k → 12%RUSH CO VICTIMS ASSISTANCE INC: $7k → 12%RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES: $7k → 12%RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 38 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
15

Total granted

$6.8M
$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

45%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic Safety & DisasterMembership BenefitOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH CO INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $310k · revenue +118%
  • RP
    RUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +65%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • RH
    REC Holding Building Corp
    one grant, 2024 · $6.6M
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $65k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
    one grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +10%
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.

1
Raleigh Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN

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2
Rush County United Fund

To provide grants to service organizations

Human Services
3
Rush County Youth Baseball Inc

Local Youth Little League Program

—
4
Rushtons Hope Inc

Rushtons Hope Exists to impact lives with hope in Christ by meeting physical and spiritual needs of homeless to helpless, rejected to neglected.

Religion
5
Russell County Food Pantry

Distribute food to the needy of the community throughout the year.

Food & Nutrition
6
Rush Fire Department Inc

Provide fire, ambulance and rescue service to the town of rush, new york

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Rushville Elementary School Parent Teacher Group Inc

To improve, promote and strength communications between parents teachers and administrators

Education
8
Rock County Senior Center
—
9
Rush Corporation

Housing assistance

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10
Northern Rush County Schools Inc

Provide free public education to students grades pre-k through 8th.

Education
11
Rusk Volunteer Fire Department

Our mission is to engage in firefighting and similar disaster assistance.

—
12
William H Bush Memorial Library
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rush County Booster Club Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 59 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REC Holding Building Corp: $6,602,772 · Community ImprovementREC Holding Building Corp+1 more: $11,133 · Community ImprovementCITY OF RUSHVILLE: $3,108,447 · OtherCITY OF RUSHVILLEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $901,967 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $300,480 · OtherRCHS ACTIVITIES FUND: $282,320 · OtherRUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $226,146 · Other+39 more: $1,400,212 · Other+39 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH CO INC: $310,288 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SHELBYVILLE SHELBY COUNTY: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentMENTORS OF RUSH CO EMPOWERING YOUTH: $22,373 · Youth DevelopmentHUFFER MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesRUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES INC: $76,519 · Human ServicesRUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $57,200 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $19,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,250 · Human ServicesRush Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $98,120 · HealthHOPE PREGNANCY CENTER DBA HOPE CENTER: $20,000 · HealthGLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $77,855 · Public Safety & DisasterMANILLA COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT INC: $22,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSHARES INC: $14,467 · Education
Community Improvement$6,613,905Other$6,219,572Youth Development$370,161Human Services$244,969Health$118,120Public Safety & Disaster$99,855Education$14,467

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREC Holding Building Corp: $6,602,772 over 1y, 25% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH CO INC: $310,288 over 6y, 19% of budgetRUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $226,146 over 9y, 9.7% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $108,490 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRush Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $98,120 over 6y, 31% of budgetRushville St Mary Catholic School Foundation Inc: $96,926 over 9y, 79% of budgetHUFFER MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $77,855 over 4y, 24% of budgetRUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES INC: $76,519 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetBPOE Lodge No 1307 Rushville Indiana Elks: $68,163 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetRUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC: $57,200 over 5y, 15% of budgetEast Hill Cemetery Company of Rushville: $50,346 over 4y, 11% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SHELBYVILLE SHELBY COUNTY: $37,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMENTORS OF RUSH CO EMPOWERING YOUTH: $22,373 over 2y, 33% of budgetMANILLA COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT INC: $22,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARES INC: $14,467 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRCHS BOOSTER CLUB: $13,800 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE HEART OF RUSHVILLE INC: $11,133 over 2y, 13% of budgetRUSH COUNTY VICTIM'S ASSISTANCEINC: $7,250 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $6,568 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRush County Economic and Community Development Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

  • Who funds REC Holding Building Corp ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH CO INC ↗
  • Who funds RUSHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Rush Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rushville St Mary Catholic School Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUFFER MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds RUSH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BPOE Lodge No 1307 Rushville Indiana Elks ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
  • Who funds RUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds East Hill Cemetery Company of Rushville ↗
  • 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 HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER DBA HOPE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC ↗

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.

Blue River Foundation…Lilly Endowment IncCentral Indiana Commu…Duke Energy FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue River Foundation IncIN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rush County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rush County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    7report 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, 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.

    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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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