· Private foundation
Rusty Rabbit 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORSESENSING INC | $65,000 |
| OPERATON CARE INC | $25,000 |
| FIRE MISSION MINISTRIES INC | $15,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| AWAKE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| FATHERS LOVE INC | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| OPERATION CATSNIP OF KENTUCKY INC | $5,000 |
| MYASTHENIA GRAVIS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| TYSONS CHANCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| BACKWARDS BACKPACK | $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, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- HIHORSESENSING INC3× · 2023–2025 · $192k · revenue -1%
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +3%- OCOPERATION CARE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- DIDOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -78%
- VRVETERANS RURAL OUTREACH KY INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -2%
- SYSTORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
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.
To provide housing and a day program for men and women with special needs. these facilities offer activities in a christian setting.
To provide housing,meals, and other services for homeless veterans
To care for homeless, abused, neglected and abandoned animals and educate the community to instill an increased awareness and commitment to the responsibility of animal ownership and protection.
To provide support to homeless persons
Helping homeless veterans transition to being functioning adults. Providing transitional homes and case management services while there. Helping them get everything in order for them to get a permanent home.
Vets advocacy is a privately-funded, non-profit advocacy organization established to facilitate the revitalization of the west los angeles veterans affairs campus as a condition of the valentini vs. shinseki settlement. vets advocacy is…
Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.
Operation Rebuild Hope serves veterans by providing fast-tracked housing solutions and support services to those in need
The organizations mission is to rescue and train homeless dogs to become service dogs for united states veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi), and related challenges.
Saving the lives of homeless and unwanted pets in harrison county kentucky and surrounding areas.
Created to combat the growing epidemic of homelessness among veterans. devoted to bringing quality of life and to promoting purpose driven lives for the veterans while
Temporary shelter for abused spouses and their children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Myasthenia Gravis Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 HORSESENSING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CARE INC ↗
- Who funds TYSONS CHANCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SHELBY COUNTY KY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRE MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RURAL OUTREACH KY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Myasthenia Gravis Association ↗
- Who funds Shelby County Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation) · 849 Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Rusty Rabbit 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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