· Private foundation
Rust Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Robeson County Church and Community Center | $30,000 |
| Pure Water Initiative | $30,000 |
| Camp Kudzu | $25,000 |
| Amani Sasa | $24,000 |
| Pivot Ministries | $23,000 |
| Slice 325 | $20,000 |
| Overflow Foundation | $20,000 |
| Lumberton Christian Care Center | $15,000 |
| Recovery Cafe | $10,000 |
| Providence Baptist Church | $5,000 |
| First Baptist Church of Clemmons | $5,000 |
| India Vision Initiative | $5,000 |
| Campbell University Divinity School | $5,000 |
| Robeson County Partnership for Children | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- OFOVERFLOW FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue 0%
- PWPURE WATER INITIATIVE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue 0%
- RCROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue -14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $40k
- PMPARABLE MEDIA INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
We are a missions organization sharing the gospel worldwide.
We desire to make disciples and to equip people with practical and biblical tools to help improve their situation and that of those in their churches and communities. We believe in the unity of the body of Christ and to see the will of God…
Disciple Maker Ministries is devoted to fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelism and reproducing discipleship.
Parable International is a Christian educational and missions organization dedicated to training individuals in creative arts, storytelling, media, and discipleship. The ministry equips students and emerging leaders through teaching,…
Religious
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Reliant Media Group exists to help the Church testify of all that Jesus is doing. We help Christian nonprofits and churches with their digital marketing, storytelling, and communications. We also provide digital content and videos that…
The Filter Project is a parachurch ministry whose mission is to pour Gods love into under-resourced communities through the gift of safe, filtered, drinking water in Kenya and plan to serve into additional countries in the future.
Christian healthcare mission training and evangelism.
Lifeline International Inc. exists for the promotion of the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. We serve as a missions resource ministry providing equipment, literature, finances and many other forms of practical help to churches,…
Provide help to people in third world and developing countries by providing leadership training, orphanage buildings, medical assistance, youth worker training, children's worker training, inspirational messages of hope, and clothing to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Edge Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Pure Water Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 OVERFLOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PURE WATER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP KUDZU INC ↗
- Who funds AMANI SASA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Slice 325 ↗
- Who funds LUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARABLE MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Good Faith Media Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIA VISION INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Leadership Edge Incorporated ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Rust Family 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.
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.
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