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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
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $500,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $731,195 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $231,195 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.
$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$349k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOUNDED WARRIORS$500,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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 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
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.

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6
Nueces Canyon Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

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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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Braunfels Professional Fire Fighters Charities Association; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherTEXAS 4-H: $1,000 · OtherHONOR FLIGHT SAN ANTONIO: $1,000 · OtherNEW BRAUNFELS ROTARY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $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 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 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 budgetTEXAS 4-H: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS ROTARY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetALPHA HOME INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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.

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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