· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FATHERS LOVE INC | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| AWAKE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| TYSONS CHANCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| OPERATION CATSNIP OF KENTUCKY INC | $5,000 |
| MYASTHENIA GRAVIS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BACKWARDS BACKPACK | $3,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 0% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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 16 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 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 FATHERS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Myasthenia Gravis Association ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RURAL OUTREACH KY INC ↗
- Who funds Shelby County Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rusty Rabbit Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rusty Rabbit Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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