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Rush Enterprises Foundation

RUSH ENTERPRISES FOUNDATION will provide financial scholarships to children of employees, medical, and similar financial support to employees of rush enterprises, inc.

$731k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Human Services$503kFood & Nutrition$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kRecreation & Sports$3kEducation$1kHealth$1kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $500,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $731,195 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $231,195 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.

$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$349k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOUNDED WARRIORS$500,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%BOYSVILLE INC: $2k → 16%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 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
Texas Honor Ride

To honor, directly help and improve the quality of life of wounded warriors and their families who are recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, TX.

Human Services
2
New Home School Foundation

Provide financial assistance to new home isd.

Education
3
New Braunfels Public Library Ftd

To support the new braunfels public library system

Philanthropy
4
Honor Veterans Now

Meals for Vets mission is to reduce hunger in Texas Veteran population. Meals for Vets goal is to fund the delivery of nutritious meals to all qualifying Texas Veterans their families and surviving spouses.

Public Benefit
5
Central Texas Food Bank Foundation

To support the central texas food bank's mission to nourish hungry people and lead the community in the fight against hunger.as of september 30, 2024, this entity was dissolved, all net assets were transferred to the food bank.

6
Nueces Canyon Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

7
Kids Feeding Kids

Through local donors and youth agricultural programs, kid's feeding kid's provides resources for agencies who house and care for communities most vulnerable.

Food & Nutrition
8
San Saba Volunteer Fire Department

To protect the lives and property of the citizens of the city and county of San Saba, Texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Garza County Livestock Association

Support garza county tx 4-h & ffa youth

Youth Development
10
Ag Youth of Texas

To promote youth agricultural activity

Education
11
Montgomery County a&M Club Scholarship Foundation

Schooarships -provide scholarships to texas a&m university incoming freshmen from montgomery county texas

12
Texas Beef Initiative

The mission of the texas beef initiative is to provide a consistent supply of quality ground beef to texas families in need.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Braunfels Professional Fire Fighters Charities Association and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight San Antonio. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $20,000 · OtherNEW BRAUNFELS PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITIES ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · OtherCITY OF NEW BRAUNFELS CERT FOUNDATION — $1,183 · OtherNEW BRAUNFELS ROTARY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $1,000 · OtherTEXAS 4-H — $1,000 · OtherHONOR FLIGHT SAN ANTONIO — $1,000 · OtherALPHA HOME INC — $1,000 · OtherNew Braunfels Parks Foundation — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $500 · International
Human Services$502,000Other$28,183Recreation & Sports$2,500International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITIES ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNew Braunfels Parks Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOYSVILLE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS ROTARY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTEXAS 4-H — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALPHA HOME INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $500 over 1y, 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Rush Enterprises Foundation 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rush Enterprises Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rush Enterprises Foundation 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 11 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $176k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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