· Private foundation
Rushing River Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $209k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP OZARK FOUNDATION | $3,025,000 |
| THE WOODLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| WIMBERLEY VALLEY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| INSPIRATION RANCH | $30,800 |
| ANGEL REACH | $28,300 |
| TESPA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| THE SLOTH INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| DOG ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $25,000 |
| SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION | $6,150 |
| MAKE-A-WISH CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 95% of Rushing River Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 100%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against -70% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCAMP OZARK FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +372% · 72% of their budget
- WVWimberley Valley Watershed Association5× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +147%
- SSSmall Steps Nurturing Center5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Houston - Gift Procesone grant, 2022 · $50k
- HMHouston Methodist Hospital Foundatione grant, 2023 · $25k
- CCCORE - Children of Restaurant Emploone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
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To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CAMP OZARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wimberley Valley Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
- Who funds TreeFolks Inc ↗
- Who funds Gods Garage Inc ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rushing River Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rushing River Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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