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Rust Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$106kInternational$74kReligion$59kHuman Services$56kFood & Nutrition$20kEducation$8kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $197k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Campbell University Divinity School$5,000
Providence Baptist Church$5,000
India Vision Initiative$5,000
First Baptist Church of Clemmons$5,000
Robeson County Partnership for Children$3,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Robeson County Church and Community Center: $30k → 26%Robeson County Church and Community Center: $10k → 26%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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 4 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$159k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+24%

Still filing today

75%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OF
    OVERFLOW FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • PW
    PURE WATER INITIATIVE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue 0%
  • RC
    ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue -14%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • PM
    PARABLE MEDIA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
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
Equip the Nations Inc

We are a missions organization sharing the gospel worldwide.

International
2
Rakham International Missions Inc

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…

International
3
Disciple Maker Ministries

Disciple Maker Ministries is devoted to fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelism and reproducing discipleship.

Religion
4
Parable International

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,…

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5
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
6
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
7
Reliant Media Group

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…

Religion
8
The Filter Project

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.

International
9
Companions of Grace International Inc

Christian healthcare mission training and evangelism.

Religion
10
Lifeline International Inc

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,…

Religion
11
Clear Vision Ministries Inc

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…

Religion
12
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Edge Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPivot Ministries: $23,000 · OtherPivot MinistriesLUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherLUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INCRecovery Cafe: $10,000 · OtherRecovery CafeFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHGood Faith Media Inc: $6,000 · OtherFirst Baptist Church of Clemmons: $5,000 · OtherProvidence Baptist Church: $5,000 · OtherGRANDIN COURT BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherCampbell University Divinity School: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $4,900 · OtherPURE WATER INITIATIVE INC: $45,000 · InternationalPURE WATER INITIATIVE …AMANI SASA INCORPORATED: $24,000 · InternationalAMANI SASA INCORPORATE…INDIA VISION INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · InternationalINDIA VISION INITIATIV…OVERFLOW FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · HealthOVERFLOW FOUNDATION I…ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesROBESON COUN…+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesCAMP KUDZU INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSlice 325: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPARABLE MEDIA INC: $10,000 · ReligionROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 · Education
Other$126,400International$74,000Health$70,000Human Services$40,500Youth Development$25,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Religion$10,000Education$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOVERFLOW FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPURE WATER INITIATIVE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCAMP KUDZU INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARABLE MEDIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetGood Faith Media Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIA VISION INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Edge Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Rust Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rust Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rust Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rust Family 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 23 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-PF 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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