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The Rush Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$137k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Education$522kHousing & Shelter$256kReligion$166kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$27kHealth$16kYouth Development$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY$55,000
OAKS ACADEMY$50,000
ST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$19,810
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC$4,000
ARTIS NAPLES$2,500
NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC$2,000
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING$1,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS$1,000
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES$600
WHEELER MISSION$500
PEYTON MANNING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Sam's Wish: $500 → 5%SAM'S WISH: $500 → 5%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY NAPLES: $100 → 10%SAM'S WISH: $500 → 5%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $2k → 16%WOODLAND CHRISTMAS CLUB: $100 → 5%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $3k → 10%SAM'S WISH: $500 → 5%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $600 → 10%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $550 → 10%PLACE OF HOPE: $8k → 10%PLACE OF HOPE: $1k → 10%MARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $2k → 16%Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $500 → 16%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $2k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING: $2k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $2k → 10%Naples Take a Soldier fishing: $2k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $2k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 20 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
39

Total granted

$1.0M
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+24%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $294k · revenue +97%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +187%
  • TO
    The Oaks Academy Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • JH
    Jefferson High School
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • IH
    INDY HUB FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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3
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
5
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
6
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollier County Community Or…Family Foundations & Charit…Professional Trade Associat…Youth Development ProgramsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Faith-Based Social ServicesCharter and Independent Sch…Indiana Nonprofit Sector
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr14%37%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr23%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr14%33%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr23%25%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
10%
4,324/41,943

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Indiana University Foundation — $293,700 · EducationIndiana University FoundationThe Oaks Academy Inc — $205,000 · EducationThe Oaks Academy Inc+6 more — $7,650 · EducationHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity of Col…+1 more — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $165,810 · OtherST LUKES UNITED METH…Jefferson High School — $7,000 · Other+19 more — $21,375 · Other+19 moreNAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC — $3,870 · Human ServicesSAM'S WISH INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesMARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $1,500 · Human Services+4 more — $1,300 · Human ServicesARTIS-NAPLES INC — $12,868 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $8,000 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $350 · Arts & CultureTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyINDY HUB FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyTHE V FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC — $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,000 · HealthREADING HOSPITAL — $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Health+4 more — $600 · Health
Education$506,350Housing & Shelter$252,500Other$194,185Human Services$36,170Arts & Culture$26,718Philanthropy$20,100Health$12,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation — $293,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc — $250,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Oaks Academy Inc — $205,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC — $12,868 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC — $12,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDY HUB FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC — $3,870 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAM'S WISH INC — $2,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT-A-VILLAGE IN GUATEMALA INC — $1,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREADING HOSPITAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Library of Collier County Inc — $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASE CAMP CODING ACADEMY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDown for a Cure Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOODLAND CHRISTMAS CLUB INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of Indiana Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Lilly Endowment IncThe Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Hamilton County Commu…Lumina Foundation for…Hubbard Family Founda…Maurer Family Foundat…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Bill and Linda Stavro…The Forest Fund IncDorsey Foundation Inc
Lilly Endowment IncIN26.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Hubbard Family Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation · The Forest Fund Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc

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 The Rush Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Christ Child Society of Naples Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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